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How can I check how many processes are used by a user?

What happens when a user reaches max user processes as specified by
maxuproc?

thanks in advance

Roman schrieb:
> How can I check how many processes are used by a user?

ps -ef | grep <username> | wc -l

> What happens when a user reaches max user processes as specified by
> maxuproc?

He can't start a new process

> thanks in advance

Friedhelm Neyer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> How can I check how many processes are used by a user?
>
> ps -ef | grep <username> | wc -l

ps -fu <username> | wc -l

might be more accurate in corner cases (where the username appears somewhere
in command arguments).

Yours,
Laurenz Albe