From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Dec 7 10:43:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD35E37B405; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 10:43:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fB7IhR145722; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:43:27 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:43:24 -0500 To: Robert Watson , arch@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Default value for maxusers Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 1:21 PM -0500 12/7/01, Robert Watson wrote: >While reviewing and updating the content of tuning(7), I noticed the >following text: > > The kern.maxusers tunable defaults to an incredibly low value. > For most modern machines, you probably want to increase this > value to 64, 128, or 256. >The first two sentences suggest that either we need to do one of the >following: > >(1) Update the default maxusers value in GENERIC to something larger > (perhaps 64), and remove the text from tuning(7), or... > >(2) Remove this text from tuning(7). > >It seems rediculous to have a default that is known to be inadequate (or >worse, "incredibly low"). Isn't this a case where GENERIC has a value set for "older, smaller" machines, so it can be used for booting up any machine? Most modern machines may want 64 or more, but what happens for older machines if we increase that value? Another thing I sometimes wonder is if that value (MAXUSERS) sets the right values for whatever it is setting. I mean, I always increase maxusers on my machines, but on the other hand most of my machines never have more than three people connected to them at any one time. Why am I setting "MAXUSERS" to 64 or 96 on a machine that only has 3 people logged in? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message