jdow wrote:
> Wow! I thought NetBSD was a real multiprocessing operating system. A
> limit that low is a joke, a very bad joke. I run more processes than
> that even on my old Amiga systems from a decade ago fresh from a cold
> boot.
Joanne,
I can assure you that NetBSD on my Amiga can run more than 64
processes at a time. The last time I ran the SpamAssassin test suite
on it, it was a bit slow, though :-) (I wonder whether Theo calls for
his heart medication now... at least it has more RAM than the 64 MB in
Cheryl's Pentium II).
64 is the default soft limit for the number of open file descriptors a
process can use. This number is a bit on the low side, especially since
an increasing number of programs seems to expect the 1024 descriptors
Linux provides.
If this (or any other) soft limit should be permanently raised for users
you can do that in /etc/login.conf.
ciao
Klaus
