On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> > miyu% sysctl -a | grep maxproc
> > kern.maxproc = 532                             <---
> > proc.curproc.rlimit.maxproc.soft = 80
> > proc.curproc.rlimit.maxproc.hard = 532
> 
> Sorry, I guess I haven't made myself very clear.  I know about kern.maxproc, 
> and /etc/sysctl.conf.  In fact, I've already *got* kern.maxproc set to 1024.
> (and I used sysctl.conf to do it)
> 
> The variable I'm actually interested in is proc.<pid>.rlimit.maxproc.soft,
> as that's what controls how many processes a given process is able to spawn.
> I need to have that set to something higher than 80 for the apache
> processes, which is owned by use 'nobody'.

OK, how about a wrapper script for apachectl(?) then that pokes
proc.curproc.rlimit.maxproc.soft etc.?


 - Hubert

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