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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
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Subject: maxvnodes with news server?
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Hi...

	Someone mentioned setting maxvnodes to between 15000-30000
on a news server, depending on the size of the file system(?), but 
I never heard anything back on how to determine a reasonable value...

	Can someone explain what increasing maxvnodes does, and what
a reasonable value to use is?


Marc G. Fournier                                 scrappy@hub.org
Systems Administrator @ hub.org              scrappy@freebsd.org