From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 15 20:52:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lor.watermarkgroup.com (lor.watermarkgroup.com [207.202.73.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02C32150AE for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 20:52:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luoqi@watermarkgroup.com) Received: (from luoqi@localhost) by lor.watermarkgroup.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA05838; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 23:51:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from luoqi) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 23:51:27 -0500 (EST) From: Luoqi Chen Message-Id: <199903160451.XAA05838@lor.watermarkgroup.com> To: crossd@cs.rpi.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: evil maxusers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > What is evil abuot large maxusers? We have a crashing server (Pentium II-400) > with maxusers set to 320. In a previous email to -hackers that I have since > lost :I it was mentioned that you could lower maxusers, and the, by hand, > up the MBUFs and NPROCs in the config file. However I have grepped the > entire kernel source tree, and I can see that MAXUSERS is only used to > set MBUFs and NPROCS (and other things derive from there, suich as > MAXFILES). Why therefore will MAXUSERS=320 crash my system, while setting > MAXUSERS to 64, and adjusting MBUFs and NPROCS by hand will not? > > -- > David Cross > Did you look at the config-generated files in /sys/compile/*? -lq To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message