On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 02:33, Wayne Tucker wrote: > > I guess that you have some problem related to ulimit... > > [snip] > > Is the "default" number of processes allowed by ulimit/setrlimit > determined in the kernel, or is it being set from somewhere in the > init scripts? Are resource limits inherited from the parent process, > and can the default for daemons be changed somewhere in the init > process so that they can be effective for daemon processes that start > on bootup? The system does not have any users other than admins, so > for our purposes it would be safe for us to have RLIMIT_NPROC set to > something higher such as 512.
I think that generally ulimit is not set in init scripts. However some init scripts may end up sourcing /etc/profile (this is not a good idea), and people often put ulimit commands in /etc/profile... The kernel definately doesn't put any significant limits in. Are you certain that it's a limit on the number of processes? Or might it be some other limit that hits in when you have 256 processes? Check in /proc/sys/fs and see if the first field in file-nr is near the value of file-max. Also do the same check for inode-max if it exists. -- If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
