>Number:         11137
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       default CHILD_MAX is too low (again)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Oct 04 17:37:00 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     matthew green
>Release:        <NetBSD-current source date>today
>Organization:
people's front against (bozotic) www (softwar foundation)
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD towers-of-dub.eterna.com.au 1.4Z NetBSD 1.4Z (_towers_) #43: Fri Jun 2 23:31:34 EST 2000 mrg@towers-of-dub.eterna.com.au:/orb/y/_towers_ alpha


>Description:

	the default value of CHILD_MAX is once again too low for many users.

>How-To-Repeat:

	run a big window manager with lots of applications and have
	mysterious failures.
>Fix:

	i've had this doubled for some time now.

Index: sys/sys/syslimits.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/syssrc/sys/sys/syslimits.h,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -p -r1.18 syslimits.h
*** sys/sys/syslimits.h	1999/09/27 16:24:40	1.18
--- sys/sys/syslimits.h	2000/10/05 00:33:10
***************
*** 42,48 ****
  
  #if !defined(_ANSI_SOURCE)
  #define	ARG_MAX		 (256 * 1024)	/* max bytes for an exec function */
! #define	CHILD_MAX		   80	/* max simultaneous processes */
  #define	GID_MAX		   2147483647U	/* max value for a gid_t (2^31-2) */
  #define	LINK_MAX		32767	/* max file link count */
  #define	MAX_CANON		  255	/* max bytes in term canon input line */
--- 42,48 ----
  
  #if !defined(_ANSI_SOURCE)
  #define	ARG_MAX		 (256 * 1024)	/* max bytes for an exec function */
! #define	CHILD_MAX		  160	/* max simultaneous processes */
  #define	GID_MAX		   2147483647U	/* max value for a gid_t (2^31-2) */
  #define	LINK_MAX		32767	/* max file link count */
  #define	MAX_CANON		  255	/* max bytes in term canon input line */
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