Quoth era eriksson on 27 May 98, at 9:08:
my bash reports a limit of 256 user processes but I'm not sure
if that's per Bash session or per user.
Yup -- I discovered that my ISP hardcoded a 50-process-per-UID
limit in when they compiled bash. For some odd reason, ulimit
doesn't report it, but a fellow Panixian found the source they
used. I've nudged them to up it.
In the meantime, I've employed an empty-set bailout, and removed
the 'cat's from my variable assignments, which will reduce the
number of processes used by roughly half.
However, the kind of mailbomb I suffer is the "death by a thousand
tiny cuts" type -- many small emails coming in at once, causing the
number of processes to rise. I don't have a problem with core dumps.
;^)
Thanks for your help.
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