Re: How limits are enforced (was: various maxproc limits)
Re: How limits are enforced (was: various maxproc limits)
- Subject: Re: How limits are enforced (was: various maxproc limits)
- From: Matt Johnston <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:21:02 +0800
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 08:50:46PM -0500, Jerry Jorgenson wrote:
> Okay, I understood what you said. But that doesn't help me any when I can
> no longer open windows on the desktop. In my previous systems I just upped
> the number nprocs and maxprocs to somthing reasonable like 8000 and 16000
> respectively, relinked the kernel and all was well. In OS X I'm lucky to
> get 40 windows open. I would expect at least to be able to open up windows
> to the X maximum of 120 or so. It's a real pain not to be able to have to
> shut one window down whenever you want to open another one. Threaded
> applications don't help since there seems to be a very low limit on those
> too.
>
> I would sure like to know how to overcome what is a major problem for me
> (without compromising the stability of the system).
I came across this too, you might want to add
limit maxproc 1000
limit maxfiles 10000
(or similar) to /etc/launchd.conf, which should be inherited
by all processes. The launchctl(1) and launchd.conf(5)
manpages have details.
Matt
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