Thanks to the many who replied.
Basically, the consensus was that there should be no problem increasing
max-proc-per-user. Some databases require this to be something in the order
of 1024.
The reason for this parameter is to defend against accidental fork loops, so
increasing it runs a risk of a user, either deliberately or accidentally
executing a denial of service attack due to insufficient physical memory.
Therefore, it is unwise to set the value to infinity.
I was reminded to increase max-threads-per-user to a value 4-8 times
max-proc-per-user.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Tan
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 5:01 PM
To: 'tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov'
Subject: max-proc-per-user
Hi, experts.
A quick, easy question for some of you, but I'm racking my brains over it
due to lack of experience.
/etc/sysconfigtab notes max-proc-per-user = 128
What might be the consequences or ramifications of changing it, to, say,
500? Why would one do this? Any drawbacks to watch out for? (I know some
systems has this value in the thousands, so 500 shouldn't be too bad, but
I'm not sure.)
Thanks for your help.
Received on Tue Feb 06 2001 - 22:17:19 NZDT