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Date:      Mon, 15 Mar 1999 23:51:27 -0500 (EST)
From:      Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>
To:        crossd@cs.rpi.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re:  evil maxusers
Message-ID:  <199903160451.XAA05838@lor.watermarkgroup.com>

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> What is evil abuot large maxusers?  We have a crashing server (Pentium II-400)
> with maxusers set to 320.  In a previous email to -hackers that I have since
> lost :I it was mentioned that you could lower maxusers, and the, by hand,
> up the MBUFs and NPROCs in the config file.  However I have grepped the
> entire kernel source tree, and I can see that MAXUSERS is only used to
> set MBUFs and NPROCS (and other things derive from there, suich as
> MAXFILES).  Why therefore will MAXUSERS=320 crash my system, while setting
> MAXUSERS to 64, and adjusting MBUFs and NPROCS by hand will not?
> 
> --
> David Cross
> 
Did you look at the config-generated files in /sys/compile/*?

-lq


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