From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 23 6:36:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D86137B71A for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 06:36:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 59189 invoked by uid 100); 23 Mar 2001 14:36:32 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15035.24432.695490.250312@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:36:32 -0600 To: "Dave" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User limitations In-Reply-To: <1361108@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dave types: > I just have a quick qustion, how many users can freebsd 4.0 generic > support at the same time either by ssh or telnet by the defaults? > Do i need to recompile the kernel for over 200 users? No, you don't need to. However, various system table sizes are tuned for a smaller number of users than that, so you're liable to find yourself running out of things. You would do well to create a custom config and set maxusers to a larger number, so those tables will be bigger. At that time, going through your dmesg output and taking out all the unneeded devices will make the kernel footprint smaller, which will compensate for the tables being larger. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message