Specifies the maximum number of processes that can be created on a system. Includes system processes and user processes. Any value specified in /etc/system is used in the computation of maxuprc.
This value is also used in determining the size of several other system data structures. Other data structures where this parameter plays a role are as follows:
Determining the size of the directory name lookup cache (if ncsize is not specified)
Verifying that the amount of memory used by configured system V semaphores does not exceed system limits
Configuring Hardware Address Translation resources for x86 platforms
Signed integer
10 + (16 x maxusers) if maxusers is set in the /etc/system file
The larger of 30,000 or 10 + (128 x number of CPUs), if maxusers is not set in the /etc/system file
26 to value of maxpid
No
Yes. If the value exceeds maxpid, it is set to maxpid .
Changing this parameter is one of the steps necessary to enable support for more than 30,000 processes on a system.
Unstable