[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 unplug the network and wait > for those children to die before I can fork new processes, such as ps or > kill. > > Would fixing this be as simple as sticking a ulimit command in my sendmail > init script or does sendmail fork off into it's own environment making > that useless?
No, ulimit will not help you because linux has a hard limit on the number of processes built into the kernel. http://linuxperf.nl.linux.org/general/kerneltuning.html -- see shy jo
