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To: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:24:24 -0700
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>Why does it care?  (2.1-stable, supped yesterday. (4/10))

   It doesn't care. It is only warning you that you might be doing something
stupid. maxusers is used to size many kernel data structures and too large a
value might cause you problems depending on how much memory you have and how
large the number is.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project