PROC table and forking processes

Mike Bristow mike at urgle.com
Tue Jan 21 09:16:50 GMT 2003


On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:34:39PM -0000, Mark Stewart wrote:
> thanks - by default the sysctl is read only - think I may have to compile a new kernel? :(

"echo 'kern.maxusers="64"' >> /boot/loader.conf" will increase the
size of a whole bunch of static tables to a larger size at boot
time.  I think the process table is one of the things affected.

See tuning(7) for gory details.

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