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From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Bruce Evans wrote:

> >case.  If running 2.2- you also want EXTRAVNODES up there in the 15000-30000
> >range depending on the size of your spool.
> 
> EXTRAVNODES does not exist in the current version of 2.2.  Use the standard
> BSD4.4 sysctl variable kern.maxvnodes.
>
	Can someone explain this one?  15000->30000 is quite a large range
to be "up there in"...:)  What sort of criteria/formula should be used to 
determine where in there it should be...?