More Processes

[david at cogley.com (David Cogley)]

A linux application can only create 240 processes and claims that it
needs to be able to create 320 processes.  How do I increase this limit?

On Solaris 5.6, there is a ulimit command.  Is there something similar
for Linux?  Do I need to recompile the kernel?

Why do I ask this question?  Because I am trying to install a "real"
application on my linux box at home so I can get more development time
than I do at work.  At work, we have a Sun E4500 SMP "production
machine" with 8 CPUs, 4.5 GB RAM and 2.5 TB of disk array.  There is no
"development machine".

I'm hoping to purchase a 4-processor linux box with 512 MB RAM and a few
GB of SCSI disk space.  However, since I'll be spending my money, I'd
like to work out the operating system issues on my Pentium uniprocessor
machine first.

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