Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 08:28:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: mrcpu@cdsnet.net (Jaye Mathisen) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: warning: maxusers > 64 Message-ID: <199604121328.IAA17320@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960411155927.2576m-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net> from "Jaye Mathisen" at Apr 11, 96 03:59:49 pm
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> Why does it care? (2.1-stable, supped yesterday. (4/10)) As far as I can tell - it doesn't, it's just trying to warn you about a potentially silly setting. Last I checked, MAXUSERS drives several key kernel data structure sizes, among other things. Setting MAXUSERS to 256 might be disastrous on a box with 4MB RAM. I routinely run news servers with MAXUSERS==128 (64/128MB RAM). When we recently tried to upgrade Daily-Planet to what I'm told is a "Triton-clone" board that was able to handle 256MB RAM, I upped it to MAXUSERS=256, but the box was very unstable. Turned out to be the motherboard, not the setting. :-) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968
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