From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Aug 26 06:30:01 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA18160 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 06:30:01 -0700 Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA18152 ; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 06:30:00 -0700 Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 06:30:00 -0700 Message-Id: <199508261330.GAA18152@freefall.FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: J Wunsch Subject: Re: conf/708: CHILD_MAX set rather low by default? Reply-To: J Wunsch Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR conf/708; it has been noted by GNATS. From: J Wunsch To: careilly@monoid.cs.tcd.ie Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/708: CHILD_MAX set rather low by default? Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 15:25:45 +0200 (MET DST) As Colman Reilly wrote: > > I'd suggest putting > > # Under some circumstances it is necessary to make the default max > # number of processes per user and open files per user more than the > # defaults on bootup. (an example is a large news server in which > # the uid, news, can sometimes need > 100 simultaneous processes running, > # or perhaps a user using lot's of windows under X). > options "CHILD_MAX=64" > options "OPEN_MAX=128" > > into the GENERIC configuration. Actually LINT is the place for this kind of stuff, but you're right. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)