On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 04:06:15PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > I have been bumping into maxproc limits a lot recently on my > workstation. While I do have quite a lot of processes at times, I don't > think I have quite been tripping into the limits of number of actual > processes. > > It seems that perhaps threads are counted towards these. Is that > expected/desirable? If so, would it be sane to raise the defaults > in login.conf and NPROCESS? 1310 isn't a lot when chromium is > using 500+.
Somewhat related, I think that pbuild defaults on amd64 should be bumped. (lots of cpus, and enough address space to take advantage of it) I regularly run into a few ports I have to restart because I ran into the maxproc limits. But then, 32 CPUs...
