From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 18 22:20:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA12130 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 22:20:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA12120 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 22:20:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA12972; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 23:20:38 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA16476; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 23:20:35 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 23:20:35 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199709190520.XAA16476@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Robert Withrow , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, bwithrow@tuva.engeast Subject: Re: Minor problems with upcomming 2.2.5 In-Reply-To: <17268.874633971@time.cdrom.com> References: <199709171412.KAA09701@tuva.engeast.baynetworks.com> <17268.874633971@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > a) Have AMD throttle its process creation at startup. > > b) Have GENERIC go out with more process slots. > > c) Find a way to have a custom kernel be installed automatically, > > instead of GENERIC. > > It's possible to have a custom kernel installed automatically, you > just have to have a little post-installation step of your own in the > installation script. The other two options don't strike me as winners > this late in the game. Actually, I think having more process slots is *a good thing* nowadays. Even on my (now ailing) lowly single-user 486/66 box with 16MB, I bump up maxusers. Nate