From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 8 16:07:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA04102 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 May 1996 16:07:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA04086 for ; Wed, 8 May 1996 16:07:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA22879; Wed, 8 May 96 23:06:54 GMT Message-Id: <9605082306.AA22879@fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.40.112.3/16.2) id AA265956815; Wed, 8 May 1996 17:06:55 -0600 Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 17:06:55 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: paul@riker.comcirc.com.au Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: (message from Paul Sondhu on Thu, 9 May 1996 08:38:53 +1000 (EST)) Subject: Re: Problem when someone tries to finger our host Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Sondhu writes: Paul> I ran the command you mentioned above and it comes up with Paul> the number 88. Is value OK? If MAXUSERS is <= 4, then no. The size of the process table is 20 + 16*MAXUSERS. If you're reliably running out of process space, then increase MAXUSERS. If the problem you're experiencing is only with fingerd, then increasing MAXUSERS probably isn't the right answer. But try it and see if it helps. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/