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To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:

> :maxusers	256
> 
>     Try reducing maxusers to 128.  Another person reported similar behavior
>     to me and after a bunch of work he tried going back to a basic 
>     distribution -- and everything started working again.
> 
>     It turned out that a maxusers value of 256 and 512 were causing his machine
>     to go poof, but a maxusers value of 128 worked fine.
> 
>     I haven't tracked the problem down yet.  Please try reducing your maxusers
>     to 128 and email the results to current.

For what it's worth, my maxusers is 250 and my system is quite stable, even
during a make -j25 buildworld.

> 
> 						    -Matt
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