On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 10:28 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:I see.. So, ulimits _are_ set by default(lower) in *BSDs and not as what I thought that they had some kind of process watchdog in place.
Yes. They are hard coded in kernel. If you want to raise them, you need to recompile the kernel.
One more thing, what about if there are 20 users and all the 20 users try to fork at the same time? What will happen then?
They would create 20*64=1280 processes. You'd log in as root (would be painfully slow, but possible), and kill them.
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