See /etc/security/limits.conf 

I've ran into some weird interactions with this with ssh sessions not
getting limits correctly from this, but would have to dig around a bit
to recall details. 

jbh


On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 12:52 -0500, mike caplin wrote:
> I am running Sci Linux 4.2 for x86 (smp).
> 
> In my installation, the procs per user limit (ulimit -u) is 100.  I
> have logged-in to comparable systems (upstream vendor, equivalent
> release) and the limit is much higher (110592).  Is this something
> that is intentionally different in SciLinux or do I have a
> misconfigured system?
> 
> I know that this value cannot be changed by an unprivileged user, is
> there an easy way to adjust the limit for all users (maybe
> /etc/initscript)?
> 
> Mike.