Category: Ulimit
Limiting user processes is important for running a stable system
1- First check the how many processes a user can execute by using
ulimit -a
2- Execute the command to set-up max_user_processes to your desired settings
ulimit -u '-----'
For Example,
ulimit -u 4096
3- Editing the limits.conf file
Go to
vi /etc/security/limits.conf
Change as follows
nobody soft nproc 4096 nobody hard nproc 16384
Where ‘nobody’ is the user name which could be ‘root’ or the one you have on your server
Set the hard and soft limits for the number of processes (nproc) for the Directory Server user. The soft limit sets how many processes the user has
available by default; the user can manually adjust that setting until they hit the hard limit.