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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 23:14:26 -0500
From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>
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To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
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Subject: Re: about common group & user ID space (PR kern/14584)
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Brett Glass wrote:
> 
> At 06:15 PM 3/19/2001, Sergey Babkin wrote:
> 
> >> > on (a) the number of groups of which a user can be a member and (b) the
> >
> >For this there is some macro (can't remember the name) which
> >can be defined in the kernel config file as an option with
> >a higher value. Setting it higher means higher system overhead
> >but since the memory size has increased significantly over
> >the last few years, I think that a higher default value makes
> >sense.
> 
> I do too. Could you submit this as a patch?

I've looked at it and found that it's already made into a sysctl
variable kern.ngroups.
 
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