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Re: system wide fix for 'max user processes'/RLIMIT_NPROC?



On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 11:53:28AM -0600, Michael Loftis wrote:
> Not system wide, re-read my message.  I'm using that.  That only works for 
> PAM apps.  init isn't a PAM app.  somewhere between the kernel firing init 
> and initscripts getting run something is screwing up that limit.  And there 
> has beena  change between 'woody' and 'sarge' since sarge isn't screwed up 
> like this.

My apologies. Try putting ulimit in /etc/init.d/rc maybe?

Brian

> --On Friday, April 16, 2004 11:19 +0100 Brian Brazil 
> <bbrazil@netsoc.tcd.ie> wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 02:10:37PM -0600, Michael Loftis wrote:
> >>For whatever reason debian stable somewhere somehow defaults to a
> >>RLIMIT_NPROC (max user processes) of 256.  This is fine for a desktop
> >>but  absurd for a server.  I have yet to find a good way to fix this,
> >>but I  still don't see what is changing it.  It should be something like
> >>7000 on  the machines I'm trying to fix it on, so something inside of
> >>debian is  changing it.  My unstable boxes do not show this behaviour
> >>(they come up  with unlimited, which is fine for my servers except my
> >>shell server).
> >>
> >>I can't find where the heck this is getting set, nor even where to
> >>change  it.  Something is setting it different from the kernel default
> >>of  max_threads / 2 (see kernel/fork.c) but i'll be deviled if i can
> >>find what.  I can and do use pam_limits.so/limits.conf for logins, but
> >>for daemon  startup I need to fix this and know it's not ending up at
> >>256.
> >>
> >>any help/ideas?
> >
> >/etc/pam.d pam_ulimit.so
> >/etc/security/limits.conf
> >
> >Brian
> >



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