System Administration Guide, Volume 2

How to Set the Number of Processes per User

  1. Become superuser.

  2. Edit the /etc/system file and add the following line.


    set maxuprc=value
    

    value

    Number of processes a user can run at once. 

  3. Verify the maxuprc value change.


    # grep maxuprc /etc/system
    set maxuprc=100
  4. Reboot the system.

Example--Setting the Number of Processes per User

The following example shows the line you would add to the /etc/system file to allow users to run 100 processes each.


set maxuprc=100