increase the process limit of user

[peterchu]

I use RH8 now , I know that when the user do the process , it reach the process limit that the system is allowed , how can I increase it ? thx.

[benoit Bruckert · Accepted solution]

Hi,
you can dynamically change /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max and ulimit
to define the number you want. (this is for 2.4 kernels) . For 2.2 kernels you have a fixed limit of 512 per user (linked with a hardware processor parameter).

Hth,
Benoit

[Muthukumar_5]

You can get the process limit given to the user as,

ulimit -u

As a super user we can control the user's process limit with /etc/security/limits.conf
file.

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