Am I looking at the correct values?
Yes.
Which is the actual process limit?
The lower number, 3632, is the max processes permitted per user.
What would you recommend that I set it to in order to have my machine shrug off the fork bomb sooner?
Probably around 300.
What would be a good process limit for a LAMP webserver?
The # of Apache children you want to run + 50 or so...
How would I set the process limits?
You could change login.conf (be sure to run "cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf"), or you could change the limits seen all processes by changing /etc/profile, or for specific user accounts by changing that user's startup scripts:
# Set reasonable soft process limits. ulimit -Sc 100000 ulimit -Sd 512000 ulimit -Ss 65536 ulimit -Sn 512 ulimit -Su 256
-- -Chuck
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