12-20-2014
I'm not an AIX expert - things there are often not as they are else where.
The idea of limiting concurrent processes for a user stems from problems like fork bombs.
These simply create new child processes that create new child processes.
This is an extreme case. And not the norm by any means.
But the idea is to prevent poorly coded processes from taking over all available new process slots and preventing legitimate processes from running. The system grinds to a halt.
So for other systems you can achieve the same with ulimit settings. maxuproc allows a hard setting for ulimit - in a sense. You should never give over, by default, a large percentage of the available user process slots on a system to one application. Oracle not withstanding. Oracle "assumes" ownership of whatever machine/virtual it is on. It used to play nice with others, not anymore.
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fork
FORK(2) BSD System Calls Manual FORK(2)
NAME
fork -- create a new process
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
pid_t
fork(void);
DESCRIPTION
Fork() causes creation of a new process. The new process (child process) is an exact copy of the calling process (parent process) except for
the following:
o The child process has a unique process ID.
o The child process has a different parent process ID (i.e., the process ID of the parent process).
o The child process has its own copy of the parent's descriptors. These descriptors reference the same underlying objects, so that,
for instance, file pointers in file objects are shared between the child and the parent, so that an lseek(2) on a descriptor in the
child process can affect a subsequent read or write by the parent. This descriptor copying is also used by the shell to establish
standard input and output for newly created processes as well as to set up pipes.
o The child processes resource utilizations are set to 0; see setrlimit(2).
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, fork() returns a value of 0 to the child process and returns the process ID of the child process to the parent
process. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned to the parent process, no child process is created, and the global variable errno is set to
indicate the error.
ERRORS
Fork() will fail and no child process will be created if:
[EAGAIN] The system-imposed limit on the total number of processes under execution would be exceeded. This limit is configuration-
dependent.
[EAGAIN] The system-imposed limit MAXUPRC (<sys/param.h>) on the total number of processes under execution by a single user would
be exceeded.
[ENOMEM] There is insufficient swap space for the new process.
SEE ALSO
execve(2), wait(2)
HISTORY
A fork() function call appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.
4th Berkeley Distribution June 4, 1993 4th Berkeley Distribution