From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 6 23:16:54 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id XAA15648 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 23:16:54 -0800 Received: from gvr.win.tue.nl (root@gvr.win.tue.nl [131.155.210.19]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA15641 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 23:16:49 -0800 Received: by gvr.win.tue.nl (8.6.9/1.53) id IAA16665; Tue, 7 Feb 1995 08:16:19 +0100 From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) Message-Id: <199502070716.IAA16665@gvr.win.tue.nl> Subject: Re: kernel limits To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 08:16:18 +0100 (MET) Cc: elh@p5.spnet.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199502070337.TAA00751@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Feb 6, 95 07:37:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 646 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Greenman wrote: > > Hmmm...I just looked at SunOS 4.1.3 and the limit there is 25 processes. > ...but I agree that 40 is too small. Perhaps 64 is more reasonable. > > >>> 1) bump /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h:MAXSYMLNK from 8 to > >>> something reasonable, such as 32. > >> > >> This limit should probably be changeable using sysctl. I implemented this last night. Expect it to go into the tree wednesday. Further: I like to have a bunch of commneted sysctl's in etc/rc so ppl at least *know* what things to tune. maxfilesperproc, maxprocperuid come to mind...any others? (btw: initial values are resp. maxfiles, and maxproc-1) -Guido