Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | Subject | Re: 2.2.x process limits (NR_TASKS)? | Date | Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:29:57 +0000 (UTC) |
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110181139380.30308-100000@tigger.unnerving.org>, Gregory Ade <gkade@bigbrother.net> wrote: >We're running into what appears to be a 256-process-per-user limit on one >of our webservers, due to the number of processes running as a specific >user for our application. I'd like to increase the process limit, and >*THINK* that to do so i need to increase NR_TASKS in >/usr/src/linux/include/linux/tasks.h.
--- linux-2.2.19.orig/include/linux/tasks.h Mon Dec 11 01:49:44 2000 +++ linux-2.2.19/include/linux/tasks.h Thu Mar 29 13:08:16 2001 @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ #define NR_CPUS 1 #endif -#define NR_TASKS 512 /* On x86 Max about 4000 */ +#define NR_TASKS 2048 /* On x86 Max about 4000 */ #define MAX_TASKS_PER_USER (NR_TASKS/2) #define MIN_TASKS_LEFT_FOR_ROOT 4 >Also, where can this limit be changed in 2.4.x?
/proc/sys/kernel/threads-max
Mike. -- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" -- Albert Einstein.
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