From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 12 15:30:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CE30153C4 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 15:30:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02980; Wed, 12 May 1999 15:30:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 15:30:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Nelson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upper limit on maxusers? In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990512154504.007945f0@mgr3.k12.mo.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 12 May 1999, Nelson wrote: > I have recently implemented a box that I had to increase the maxusers in > the kernel. I read on I think a handbook page that there was a sugested > upper range of 128 for this value. I > > Question: Is 128 the max or can it go beyond this? You can go higher, but you need to make other changes. What is this box doing? > Question: Is there a scenario that the "max" would not be enough? (I am > thinking in terms of running something like Samba doing domain logons and > say running heavy file open ,from the server, applications) There's an upper ceiling to these numbers. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message