On 31 Oct 2000, Michael Graff wrote:

# Date: 31 Oct 2000 10:05:33 -0800
# From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
# To: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
# Cc: tech-kern@netbsd.org
# Subject: Re: none
# 
# I have always thought the default configuration for maxusers and other
# system tuning controls is a few years old.
# 
# Also, having maxusers control the number of FDs on the system seems a
# little strange.

No and yes.

It seems a bit archaic these days to assume a given number of FDs/user,
given the assortment of types of users.  [For the UNaware]:  maxusers
sets the array sizes of quite a few system tables.

This could probably be avoided by dictating that those would be minima,
and that they could be dynamically increased as needed.

# 
# --Michael
# 


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