From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Aug 30 08:29:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA26472 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 08:29:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA26462 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 08:29:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id KAA08472; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 10:25:44 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199608301525.KAA08472@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Max users/max processes in FreeBSD?? To: rdugaue@calweb.com (Robert Du Gaue) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 10:25:44 -0500 (CDT) Cc: froden@bigblue.no, dcs@gns.com.br, isp@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Robert Du Gaue" at Aug 30, 96 08:02:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >He is obviously confused by FreeBSD's "MAXUSERS > 64" warning. > > > > You're reading my mind :) > > So are we saying that is just what it is. A 'warning', and the actual > value is still taken? Why does it warn then? Are there some ramifications > going over 64 that someone configuring a machine for heavy duty ISP stuff > needs to know about??? It is certainly just a warning. :-) The ramifications of setting a higher number than 10 are that you probably need more memory to support it... if you try MAXUSERS 256 on a machine with 4MB, I doubt the kernel will even run, since it probably won't have enough space to allocate its data structures. Setting > 64 is often a mistake, and if it isn't a mistake in your case, you are supposed to understand the reasons that you can safely ignore the warning. ... JG