From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 30 2:17:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E8EE37B400 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 02:17:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from njam.dhs.org (bkg8100by4lk.bc.hsia.telus.net [142.173.16.222]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8A2443E1A for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 02:17:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from viktorlazlo@telus.net) Received: from localhost (viktorlazlo@localhost) by njam.dhs.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5U9GiW22364; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 02:16:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from viktorlazlo@telus.net) X-Authentication-Warning: njam.dhs.org: viktorlazlo owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 02:16:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Viktor Lazlo X-X-Sender: viktorlazlo@njam.dhs.org To: Ben Timby Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Panic: Timeout table full when installing XFree86 - MORE INFO In-Reply-To: <000101c2200a$b7441790$6401a8c0@ben> Message-ID: <20020630015643.T21920-100000@njam.dhs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Ben Timby wrote: > I booted to kernel.old, and XFree86 is installing without errors, here > is a diff of my kernel config vs. GENERIC, can anyone see what might be > causing my problem? > > < ident GENERIC > < maxusers 0 > --- > > ident MYKERNEL > > maxusers 1 Do you really have maxusers set to 1 or was this line cut off? Setting maxusers to 1 limits the total number of processes on your system to 36 (20+16*maxusers), most of which are taken up by the system itself. Maxusers sets system tables to appropriate levels for your system and not the number of users allowed to log in, so if you set it to 1 because you are the only user on this machine that may be what's causing the error. Unless you need heaps of user processes you can set it to 0 if you're running 4.5 to let the system auto-tune it, pre-4.5 systems are recommended to have this set to at least 4. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message