From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 20 14:45:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBCC414F66 for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 14:45:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA28259; Thu, 20 May 1999 14:42:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199905202142.OAA28259@implode.root.com> To: Steve Hovey Cc: Joao Carlos , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 32000 users limit In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 May 1999 15:02:29 EDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 14:42:35 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I believe the limit is due to using a 2 byte signed int > >On Thu, 20 May 1999, Joao Carlos wrote: > >> I've seen in some place that UIDs in FreeBSD had to be less than >> 32000. I'd like to know how i can increase this limit, since a provider here >> on my city has crashed its server because it has reached more than 32000 >> users. >> And... why this limit? uids in FreeBSD/i386 are 4 byte ints and at least that large on FreeBSD/Alpha. The only thing that comes to mind as a potential problem is NFS...I seem to recall that uids/gids in the v2 protocol are 16 bits, but I could be wrong about that. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message