matthew green wrote:

> [ CHILD_MAX is rediculously low ]
> 
> can we make this 256 perhaps?  login.conf can lower it for people who
> want it, which is nice...but it find it annoying as-is :-)

I ran into this when I converted my home server from an Ultrix box to
a NetBSD box and thought the same thing.  At least for a personal box,
something like NPROC/2 might be more reasonable (which is pretty close
to 256 on my home box anyway) and then scales automatically if NPROC
changes.

Simon.