Re: max # of processes in debian testing

2002-02-12 Thread Yven J. Leist
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 17:53, Joey Hess wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hmm. That's great for shell scripts and interactive shells, but what > > about, for example, the number of sendmail children on a box? My problem > > is I have a machine that can handle more than 300 sendmail childre

Summary: max # of processes in debian testing

2002-02-12 Thread debian
The original problem was the process limit in the kernel, which was 512 divided by two for users. The solution was to recompile the kernel. I used the kernel-kpkg package to do this. dpkg-kpkg actually worked. I'm impressed. :) Thanks to all who provided their input and assistance! On Tue, 12 Fe

Re: max # of processes in debian testing

2002-02-12 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hmm. That's great for shell scripts and interactive shells, but what > about, for example, the number of sendmail children on a box? My problem > is I have a machine that can handle more than 300 sendmail children at any > given time, but once it hits 300 I've got to unpl

Re: max # of processes in debian testing

2002-02-11 Thread Ionut Georgescu
Take a look at /etc/security/limits.conf It's about the same thing, but via PAM . Although I don't think this will 'temperate' your children :) ... Better add a line in the init.d script. Ionut -- *** * Ionut Georgescu * http://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/~george/ * Registered Linux

Re: max # of processes in debian testing

2002-02-11 Thread debian
Hmm. That's great for shell scripts and interactive shells, but what about, for example, the number of sendmail children on a box? My problem is I have a machine that can handle more than 300 sendmail children at any given time, but once it hits 300 I've got to unplug the network and wait for those

Re: max # of processes in debian testing

2002-02-11 Thread Yven J. Leist
On Monday 11 February 2002 19:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It looks like the default max number of processes in Debian testing is 300 > processes. How can this be increased? Any input would be appricated. > Thanks! > > Oh, on i386. :) the maximum number of processes can be set with the ulimit com

Re: max # of processes in debian testing

2002-02-11 Thread dman
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 01:19:04PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | It looks like the default max number of processes in Debian testing is 300 | processes. How can this be increased? Any input would be appricated. | Thanks! | | Oh, on i386. :) man ulimit (actually it's the bash manpage, type "/

Re: max # of processes in debian testing

2002-02-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020211 10:25]: > It looks like the default max number of processes in Debian testing is 300 > processes. How can this be increased? Any input would be appricated. > Thanks! > > Oh, on i386. :) This must be a kernel issue, not a debian-specific one. I don't

max # of processes in debian testing

2002-02-11 Thread debian
It looks like the default max number of processes in Debian testing is 300 processes. How can this be increased? Any input would be appricated. Thanks! Oh, on i386. :)