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From: Juha Saarinen <juhasaarinen@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:37:22 +0200, Ronald Klop
<ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> wrote:
> Can't it be made dependend on kern.maxusers which is dependend on the max
> amount of memory available? So people with low memory aren't wasting a lot
> of memory?

If I understand it right, memory isn't pre-allocated for ARG_MAX, and
anyway, the other *BSD's  have 256KB so it should be safe to increase
it without adding code complexity.



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Juha