From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 25 13:29:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C295314E06 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:29:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 3142 invoked by uid 1001); 25 Feb 1999 21:11:15 -0000 Message-ID: <19990225211115.3141.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.04 06-Feb-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 07:11:15 +1000 From: Greg Black To: "Dan O'Connor" Cc: "Langa Kentane" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Max # of users References: <005401be60d2$31028540$0200000a@danco.home> In-reply-to: <005401be60d2$31028540$0200000a@danco.home> of Thu, 25 Feb 1999 07:19:03 PST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >What is the max number of users that I can have on my BSD machine. > > Well, if you mean simultaneous users, that depends on what value you set for > MAXUSERS in your kernel configuration file. If you haven't built yourself a > kernel and are still using GENERIC, then MAXUSERS is 32. You're making this up. The setting of maxusers in the kernel config file has no effect on the maximum number of users that can login simultaneously. It is there to arrange for a suitable level of system resources in a running kernel. The major limit on the number of users is the number of ptys. That is dependent on two things: the "pseudo-device pty xxx" line in the kernel config file and on the number of devices in /dev, which can be increased with the /dev/MAKEDEV command. -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message