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Date:      Tue, 16 Feb 1999 10:23:32 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net>
To:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon)
Cc:        khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems in VM structure ?
Message-ID:  <199902161523.KAA01561@y.dyson.net>
In-Reply-To: <199902160819.AAA22168@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Feb 16, 99 00:19:07 am"

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Matthew Dillon said:
> :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.
> 
Likely because data structures are getting too big.  The kernel is limited
to (I forget) how big in VA space.

-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@iquest.net      | it makes one look stupid
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.

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