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Date:      Thu, 28 Oct 2021 18:20:51 GMT
From:      Guangyuan Yang <ygy@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   git: 191c624d9519 - main - config(5): Update upper limit for maxusers on 64-bit systems
Message-ID:  <202110281820.19SIKpYD040836@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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The branch main has been updated by ygy (doc, ports committer):

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=191c624d9519a2767801de390b192ee7a96b41cd

commit 191c624d9519a2767801de390b192ee7a96b41cd
Author:     Felix Johnson <felix.the.red@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: 2021-10-28 18:15:08 +0000
Commit:     Guangyuan Yang <ygy@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2021-10-28 18:15:08 +0000

    config(5): Update upper limit for maxusers on 64-bit systems
    
    The limit of 384 maxusers for auto configuration was only imposed on
    32-bit systems. Document that maxusers scales above 384 based on memory
    for 64-bit systems.
    
    PR:             204938
    MFC after:      3 days
    Reported by:    David Höppner <0xffea@gmail.com>
---
 usr.sbin/config/config.5 | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/usr.sbin/config/config.5 b/usr.sbin/config/config.5
index 433194f3b22b..134e321831d8 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/config/config.5
+++ b/usr.sbin/config/config.5
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd February 9, 2020
+.Dd October 28, 2021
 .Dt CONFIG 5
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -329,7 +329,9 @@ A value of 0 indicates that the kernel should configure
 its data structures according to the size of available
 physical memory.
 If auto configuration is requested, the kernel will set
-this tunable to a value between 32 and 384.
+this tunable to a value between 32 and 384 for 32-bit systems,
+or scale the value higher based on available memory for 64-bit
+systems.
 .Pp
 As explained in
 .Xr tuning 7 ,



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