On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Feico Dillema wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 05:07:15PM -0700, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> > the default value for kern.maxvnodes is pretty low for modern PCs...
> > I sysctl it to 20000 on my machine (which has 256MB) and it works fine.
> > the best value will depend on how much RAM your system has and
> > the behaviour patterns of applications you run, so you'll have to
> > experiment a bit.
> 
> Wouldn't it then be a good thing that these parameters are set as a
> function of available memory at NetBSD-install time, so that the
> defaults are a bit more reasonable?

	Sounds like it would be even better to determine them at boot
	time...


		David/absolute
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