Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1995 19:37:00 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Ed Hudson <elh@p5.spnet.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kernel limits Message-ID: <199502070337.TAA00751@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 Feb 95 10:01:13 GMT." <199502051001.KAA01142@p5.spnet.com>
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> however, let me ask again as to why the value of 40 for > CHILD_MAX/MAXUPRC, as an initial setting of a user's maxproc, > is still relevent in a modern workstation? Hmmm...I just looked at SunOS 4.1.3 and the limit there is 25 processes. ...but I agree that 40 is too small. Perhaps 64 is more reasonable. >>> 1) bump /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h:MAXSYMLNK from 8 to >>> something reasonable, such as 32. >> >> This limit should probably be changeable using sysctl. > > it would be great if this were indeed changeable via sysctl. > and would certainly satisfy my needs. but this is overkill > for a number that is otherwise rarely relevent. > > it looks to me like this is only used as a constant in > an iteration count check. i don't quite feel competent > enough with the kernel sources yet to volunteer to implement > this change. This change has been committed to CVS: revision 1.7 date: 1995/02/07 03:33:05; author: davidg; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 Changed maximum number of symlinks in a path from 8 to 32. The exact value isn't important; it is only used to prevent symlink loops from looping forever. 32 is a quite reasonable default. Submitted by: Ed Hudson <elh@p5.spnet.com> -DG
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