From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 21 09:45:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA23133 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:45:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts10-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA23128 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:45:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA01275; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:45:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:45:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Zachary Maas cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: maxusers max? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Zachary Maas wrote: > What is the maximum number max users can be set to on a machine with 64 > megs of ram? Or what is maxusers max? :) 32 is the standard limit. It's quite a misnomer actually, maxusers is a factor in many kernel table sizes. Set it to whatever you feel comfortable with; if you have problems with running out of table spaces in the kernel, go bump it up some and recompile. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo