In article <20010914213653.A24075@hubba.boogers.sf.ca.us> you wrote:
> I know about sysctl.conf, but since I don't know what the process ID is 
> before the process is started, I can't use sysctl.  :)  I imagine
> it's "ulimit", but I don't quite see the place to use it in the
> apache script.

Watch closely:

miyu% sysctl -a | grep maxproc
kern.maxproc = 532                             <---
proc.curproc.rlimit.maxproc.soft = 80
proc.curproc.rlimit.maxproc.hard = 532


 - Hubert

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