From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 10:04:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA13843 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 10:04:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA13838 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 10:04:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA21019 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:06:15 GMT Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa19603; 29 Oct 96 13:09 EST Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:09:21 -0500 (EST) From: Steve To: Cliff Addy cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: maxuser > 64 warning In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk You can run out of ram easy enough. I run a very busy news server with the MAX's at 128. I would leave maxuser lower too unless you find yourself out of resources. On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Cliff Addy wrote: > We're building a custom kernel for a busy webserver. We set the maxusers > to 256, the CHILD_MAX to 256, and the OPEN_MAX to 256. When we run > config, we get a warning that maxusers is over 64. > > Is there a problem with maxusers over 64? We want to insure that the