From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Oct 22 03:18:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA20221 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 03:18:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA20194; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 03:17:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA29438; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:17:19 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA22072; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:17:12 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id LAA16838; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:58:19 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610220958.LAA16838@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: kern/971 To: scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org (Marc G. Fournier) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:58:19 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: ylo@trance.olari.clinet.fi, scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610220634.XAA02856@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Marc G. Fournier" at "Oct 21, 96 11:34:04 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Synopsis: Default limits for number of processes per user ridiculously low > > State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback > State-Changed-By: scrappy > State-Changed-When: Mon Oct 21 23:33:50 PDT 1996 > State-Changed-Why: > > Dust off the cobwebs - Confirm Status Still existent. The problem is that simply bumping the number is inappropriate. The 40 might already be too high as a default for an 386/sx16 with 4 MB RAM (bottom end of what we are supporting), while it is plain stupid for an i686/200 with 128 MB RAM. So, the actual default should be calculated based on the size of the machine, with an option to allow the admin overriding it from the config file. I once thought loud about this, but never got round to really implement it. Might look like a nice pet project for somebody over the weekend. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)