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   From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:58:35 -0500, David W. Hodgins wrote:   
   > On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:18:37 -0500, Bit Twister  wrote:   
   >   
   >> What value should be a typical/normal ulimit nproc be for the typical   
   >> home system?   
   >>   
   >>   
   > I've added the line to /etc/security/limits.conf ...   
   > *               hard    nproc           10000   
      
   Heheh, I picked the example facility values, logged out/in and kde   
   launch just showed the busy indicator. Logged out and into root and used   
   vi to bump it to 220 and 250. Worked much better.   
   Current contents snippet:   
      
   500:1600         soft    nproc           220   
   500:1600         hard    nproc           250   
      
   On install I create junk and normal accounts, then append all   
   my 15?? id users to passwd and group files.   
      
   My ~/.kde4/Autostartup/startup script launches two tail -f xterms,   
   two normal xterms, slrn and thunderbird. Process count is   
   $ ps aux | grep -c $(id -g)   
   57   
      
   > When I first added it, I'd copied a prior line, and forgot to remove the   
   > leading #.  After a reboot, the forkbomb did not crash the system, so   
   > the 127910 is ok, when first starting, but not once the system has been   
   > used for a while.   
      
   Yes, I believe there is a memory leak somewhere.  :(   
      
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