> mean the box will reboot when there is a kernel panic rather than 
> dropping into ddb?
> 
> And also, what's the highest I can set kern.maxproc to?  Is there a 
> limit....or does it depend on how much RAM/CPU power the machine has. 

i can't find any limit for that. linux limits to 4000 but there is no
reason that netbsd has to be limited.
of course i may be wrong.