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.