From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 18 16:45:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from xwin.nmhtech.com (xwin.nmhtech.com [208.138.46.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA33514E6D for ; Tue, 18 May 1999 16:45:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicole@xwin.nmhtech.com) Received: by xwin.nmhtech.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9C0F52EE1A; Tue, 18 May 1999 16:45:23 -0700 (PDT) Content-Length: 1442 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199905180158.SAA19665@implode.root.com> Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 16:45:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicole Harrington To: David Greenman Subject: Re: maxusers/nmbclusters Cc: Brian Behlendorf , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18-May-99 My Secret Spies Reported That David Greenman wrote: >> I have read that if you have needs that would require turning up >> NMBclusters, >>and certain sysctl options, etc, that you should do so independantly and = not >>increase maxusers up much above 256. Will that recomendation change with = 3.2 >>as >>well? >=20 > If you specify NMBCLUSTERS, then you only need to tune maxusers for > increased number of processes (nproc =3D 16 * maxusers). This is true in = all > versions of FreeBSD. >=20 > -DG Ah, but if you set max processes via sysctl, then do you really need to tu= ne max users up at all? Thanks!! Nicole >=20 > David Greenman > Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.= org > Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.c= om |\ __ /| (`\ =20 | o_o |__ ) ) =20 // \\ =20 nicole@nmhtech.com | http://www.webweaver.net/ webmistress@dangermouse.org | http://www.dangermouse.org -------------------------(((---(((----------------------- =20 - Powered by Coka Cola and FreeBSD - - Strong enough for a man - But made for a Woman - =20 - I'm not ADD - I'm just Multithreaded - - Microsoft: What bug would you like today? - ---------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message