[CentOS] max user processes - is /etc/security/limits.conf the best place to change?

On Wednesday 14 December 2011 18:41:13 Alexander Farber wrote:
> in CentOS 6.1 is /etc/security/limits.conf
> the best place to change the number of
> max user processes for a daemon process?
> 
> (I'm asking because the ".../security/..." part
> of the path sounds a bit strange)

What's wrong with that? that avoids uncontrolled fork processes for example ;)

Regards