On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 06:41:22PM -0600, Jonathan Rockway wrote: > Hello, everyone. I'm having a problem with eclipse spawning many > processes, causing me to go over my process limit. Since this is normal > behavior, I would like to increase my process limit. I have edited > /etc/security/limits.conf, and uncommented the appropriate lines in > /etc/pam.d/* (the lines that enable pam_limits.so). I've also tried > editing login.defs to no avail. Nothing seems to work, and I can't find > "100" (the current limit) hard-coded anywhere. My friend's slackware
The kernel would be my guess. > box with kernel 2.6.3 does not suffer from this low limit, so I assume > it's a debian issue. > > > Anyway, if anyone has any ideas on how to raise this limit, I'd be > greatly appreciative if you would enlighten me. If possible, please CC > me as I have not subscribed to the list. Thank you very much in > advance, and have a good day :) Add the 'debug' option to pam_limits.so in the files under pam.d and look at /var/log/auth.log (IIRC). Should give you something. Note: In my experiance trying to alter file-max doesn't work. Kernel recompile needed. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
