Specifies the maximum number of processes that can be created on a system by any one user.
Signed integer
max_nprocs - reserved_procs
1 to max_nprocs - reserved_procs
Processes
No
Yes. This value is compared to max_nprocs - reserved_procs and set to the smaller of the two values.
When you want to specify a hard limit for the number of processes a user can create that is less than the default value of however many processes the system can create. Attempting to exceed this limit generates the following warning messages on the console or in the messages file:
out of per-user processes for uid N
Unstable