On 2017/10/06 13:51, Ted Unangst wrote: > Stuart Henderson wrote: > > I have been bumping into maxproc limits a lot recently on my > > workstation. While I do have quite a lot of processes at times, I don't > > think I have quite been tripping into the limits of number of actual > > processes. > > > > It seems that perhaps threads are counted towards these. Is that > > expected/desirable? If so, would it be sane to raise the defaults > > in login.conf and NPROCESS? 1310 isn't a lot when chromium is > > using 500+. > > kern.maxthread defaults to 1950. i have no idea what logic the formula is > attempting to express. each user will run one multithreaded process of 8 > threads? huh? > > conf/param.c:int maxthread = NPROCESS + 8 * MAXUSERS; >
Ah, I missed the separate kern.maxthread. I'll at least bump that locally then (I had already bumped maxproc). I have some java crap as well, when that's running alongside chromium there aren't many free.
