From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 2 0:52:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from galileo.poli.hu (polinet-gw.poli.hu [195.199.8.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4D1637BF6D for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 00:51:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mauzi@faber.poli.hu) Received: from faber.poli.hu ([195.199.8.29]) by galileo.poli.hu with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12QRKW-000Ehk-00; Thu, 02 Mar 2000 09:51:32 +0100 Received: from mauzi (helo=localhost) by faber.poli.hu with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 12QRKa-0002Pt-00; Thu, 02 Mar 2000 09:51:36 +0100 Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 09:51:36 +0100 (CET) From: Egervary Gergely To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MAXUSERS question, what is max MAXUSERS setting? In-Reply-To: <20000301235531.A89015@rohrbach.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > i just wondered what the maximum MAXUSERS setting for a 3.4 kernel would > be on a smp system with 512mb ram... the impact on the system structures > seems to be very... errrhh... rather complex. > > any ideas? it gives me a warning if i got past 512, but what will happen > then? see conf/param.c to see what it means. I don't thing you need to set it >128, if you have large network traffic, you should increase NMBCLUSTERS, and other VM limits. -- mauzi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message