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10.4: Permanently increase the process limit
Authored by: bonobo on Mar 19, '06 07:39:04AM

Could this be an ailment against my system sometimes not mounting disk images with error notice "too many processes"?



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10.4: Permanently increase the process limit
Authored by: Steff-X2 on Mar 20, '06 05:33:13AM

Yes, but not only. There is a limit for the whole system but also a limit per user. The same applies for files.

You can increase those limits directly by editing /etc/sysctl.conf

kern.maxprocperuid=nnn sets the max number of processes per user. Be careful to increase the "kern.maxproc" too or you may be in trouble if the system itself runs out of available process.

Restart your Mac after changes to sysctl.conf

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