Re: system limits [Re: Workaround for Firefox crashiness]

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%newn.cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:05:19PM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> Also, for about a month or two now root's max process limit has been
> enforced. I'm not sure why the change was made but with a default limit of
> 150 many systems will break instantly if upgraded to 5.0. This should be
> upped to a more reasonable default, say 500?

Good idea: I learnt the hard way when cyrus imap stopped delivering
because it couldn't spawn another process.

Cheers,

Patrick