On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 06:41:22PM -0600, Jonathan Rockway wrote:
> Hello, everyone. I'm having a problem with eclipse spawning many
> processes, causing me to go over my process limit. Since this is normal
> behavior, I would like to increase my process limit. I have edited
> /etc/security/limits.conf, and uncommented the appropriate lines in
> /etc/pam.d/* (the lines that enable pam_limits.so). I've also tried
> editing login.defs to no avail. Nothing seems to work, and I can't find
> "100" (the current limit) hard-coded anywhere. My friend's slackware
The kernel would be my guess.
> box with kernel 2.6.3 does not suffer from this low limit, so I assume
> it's a debian issue.
>
>
> Anyway, if anyone has any ideas on how to raise this limit, I'd be
> greatly appreciative if you would enlighten me. If possible, please CC
> me as I have not subscribed to the list. Thank you very much in
> advance, and have a good day :)
Add the 'debug' option to pam_limits.so in the files under pam.d and
look at /var/log/auth.log (IIRC). Should give you something.
Note: In my experiance trying to alter file-max doesn't work. Kernel recompile
needed.
Brian
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