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

[Michael Loftis]

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?

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