On Tue, 30 May 2000, you 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?
>

Yes, as far as i know atleast, and i know of only one way

you can also change MAX_PROC which specifies the maximum number of process table
entries that can be allocated. 

But i'm not 100% on this

ISM


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