Subject: Re: easy ways to crash your NetBSD system
To: None <mika@cs.caltech.edu>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: current-users
Date: 04/05/1996 09:35:40 
   (66)maestro:~>limit maxproc
   maxproc         1044 
   (67)maestro:~>sysctl -n kern.maxproc
   1044

this is a system wide limit.

#define CHILD_MAX                  80   /* max simultaneous processes */

from <sys/syslimits.h>

defines the maximum number of processes a user can have (regardless
of the misleading comment).

this used to be 40 until i made jason change it last year  :)