On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 05:27:17PM -0400, Andrew Brown wrote:
> >To raise the current process's limit:
> >hubba:riz  ~> sysctl -w proc.curproc.rlimit.maxproc.soft=600
> >proc.curproc.rlimit.maxproc.soft: 160 -> 600
> >
> >hubba:riz  ~> sysctl -a |grep maxproc
> >kern.maxproc = 1044
> >proc.curproc.rlimit.maxproc.soft = 160
> >proc.curproc.rlimit.maxproc.hard = 1044
> 
> note that in this context, maxproc.soft did *not* rise to 600 because
> you told sysctl to raise it's *own* limit to 600.  sysctl subsequently
> exited, so it never noticed the difference.

Right.  I guess I didn't make that clear enough.  Sorry for the confusion!

+j