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On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Darren Reed wrote:

> Why can't it "autoconfigure" according to the size of your RAM ?
> 
> i.e. more RAM => bigger server => more users/network connections
> 
> Darren
> 
> p.s. of course it should be possible to manually override this "number',
> for extreme cases, but why build kernels dumb ?

Or, alternatively, make it run-time configurable via /proc, sysctl, etc.
This might be a tad tricky, though.

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