Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 13:50:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com> To: katerina@voyager.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: need help with maxusers Message-ID: <199807142050.NAA02686@ix.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <35AB8725.7418B5C@voyager.net> (message from Katerina on Tue, 14 Jul 1998 12:28:21 -0400)
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The handbook at www.freebsd.org/handbook provides lots of information
on building a kernel. The documents part of www.freebsd.org provides
information on most FreeBSD subjects.
You may be running into a hardware limitation. What is the
motherboard and network interface? How much memory?
pty is /dev/pty*. How many of these do you have? 'ls /dev/pty* | wc'
To build a new kernel, you need to edit a config file, do a
configuration and make the kernel. The configuration file is the
output of 'uname -n'. I will use {kernel name} for this file.
There is a file, /sys/i386/conf/LINT that contains all known
definitions for configuration and lots of comments. I normally look
there when I change things.
as root
cd /sys/i386/conf
vi {kernel name} <== I prefer to use emacs
You should find some lines like
#
# The `maxusers' parameter controls the static sizing of a number of
# internal system tables by a complicated formula defined in param.c.
#
maxusers 10
This is the number you want to change.
Now,
config {kernel name}
cd ../../compile/{kernel name}
make depend <== always do this
make
make install
then, reboot
If I can be more helpful, please let me know.
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