On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 05:53:57PM +0300, Dilog Mail wrote:
> I would like to increase the number of processes on a system from the
> 1024 default and
> also to increase the number of processes runnable by a user from it's
> current default.
> For example, on a KDE system, there are somewhere between 100-130
> available processes.
> (I am forking off many child "clients" to bombard a server which I have
> developed.I cannot
> seem to create more than about 115 of them at a time. I need to get to
> several hundred.)
>
> How do you do this? (There is a constant, CHILD_MAX in a few places
> which defaults to 999.
> Is changing that necessary, sufficient? Is a kernel rebuild needed?
AFAIK it can (should) be modified with the 'ulimit' command
or syscalls. Changing the max. forked proccesses might require
roots as well, since that's an opportunity to flood the
machine.
Then again, I never needed it, so I just know the theory...
--
Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov a.k.a Toastie
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