Subject: Re: MAXUSER?
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 08/14/1998 09:52:13
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998 11:33:02 -0400 
 "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:

 > "Michael T. Stolarchuk" writes:
 > > I've been trying to get a target built with a larger number
 > > of MAXUSER's set... primarily to get processes which can
 > > open about 2000 files per process...
 > > 
 > > When i set MAXUSER to 64 the kernel doesn't even
 > > get past memory checking... like this:
 > 
 > Someone will correct me, but I believe this was a limitation of the
 > old pmap code that has been corrected in -current.

Absolutely, I have "maxusers 64" on all of my Alphas, now.  That was fixed
when I did that pmap mostly-rewrite.

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