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Date:      Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:06:10 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        joerg_wunsch@i.dont.like.personal.ccs.of.endless.threads
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: LINT and GENERIC - between a rock and a generic place.
Message-ID:  <199706021706.KAA14798@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <19970601024554.ZT19356@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jun 1, 97 02:45:54 am

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> > Jordan is speaking to hard limits.  The login.conf speaks to soft
> > limits, and is still limited to what it can set by the hard limits.
> 
> Terry is speaking about TerryBSD.  He could at least RTFM before
> posting. :)
> 
> login.conf can set both, althoug it can't bump the ultimate (hard
> hard) limits.

And, of course, the ultimate hard limits are what we are talking
about when we are talking about configuring a machine as a server
vs. an interactive system for 8 users vs. and interactive system
for 64 users.

Specifically, max open files, child processes, mbufs, and so on.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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