From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 16 23:23:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA20907 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 23:23:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA20892 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 23:23:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA11373; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 08:22:02 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199709170622.IAA11373@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: login classes In-Reply-To: from David Nugent at "Sep 17, 97 04:21:57 pm" To: davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 08:22:02 +0200 (SAT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > rc files use the daemon class, which is too conservative... > > > > Perhaps we need a change in this class. If possible, in time to 2.2.5. > > It sounds like limits(1) might be needed in some cases. That's why > it exists. I really don't think this is an issue that needs to be > fiddled with in the default installation. If "daemon" resources > don't suit a particular installation, then obviously they need to > change it or use an alternative class with better tuned resources > for a particular case, but there's no formula that will suit everyone > in all cases. But if the shipped defaults does not work for most people, shouldn't the shipped defaults change? I would guess that most FreeBSD boxes are used as single-user machines, so maybe we should ship it with more relaxed limits? At the moment the shipped defaults does not seem to work for anything that I have, which is news servers, web servers, development servers, mail servers or personal machines. Or maybe we must specify for what kind of box the defaults is suitable? John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za