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10.4: Permanently increase the process limit
Authored by: jerry@j3iss.com on Mar 20, '06 07:17:27AM

I tried this, and it works up to a point. The problem is that OS X appears to have a much lower limit than other Unixes so I still get "out of processes". On other Unixes I can set 8000 user and 12000 system to avoid these messages.

Anyone have a fix?



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10.4: Permanently increase the process limit
Authored by: Steff-X2 on Mar 20, '06 09:34:58AM

IMHO it seems very strange that you need so many processes running at the same time. Is it a server ? What kind of process requires so many child processes ?

Anyway, you should be able to set the max values to anything you want if you have enough hardwired memory (kernel RAM is never paged out in virtual memory).

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