On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 11:57:32AM +0100, Sico Bruins wrote:
> On one of my PCs I ran into the process table full / cannot fork
> trouble, so I decided to make a single change in the GENERIC
> kernel config: I bumped up the maxusers setting to 128.
>
> Config warned me that "config: warning: maxusers (128) > 100".
>
> I grepped around in /usr/src/usr.sbin/config and found this
> comes from sem.c but this knowledge doesn't help me all that much.
>
> Is there a way to get a bigger process table?
There are two limits: a per user limit, as set by login.conf and a
systemwide limit. The systemwide limit is set by the kern.maxproc sysctl.
-Otto
