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To: "tony" <tony@tntpro.com>
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Subject: Re: we should note "maxusers 0" in UPDATING 
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   message dated "Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:31:19 -0500."
From: bmah@acm.org (Bruce A. Mah)
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If memory serves me right, "tony" wrote:
> is this documented somewhere?

Release notes, tuning(7), coming soon to the Handbook I believe.

> when I left the maxusers at 0 it said
> something along the lines of "max users set to 0, assuming 8" now 8 seems
> very low to me, will that in some way automatically grow during normal
> operation of the system?

It sounds like you're using an old version of config(8), you might want
to update to a newer 4-STABLE.  See the 4-STABLE release notes for a
brief description of how this feature works.

Bruce.



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