Subject: Re: Raising maxproc soft limit
To: None <junyoung@netbsd.org>
From: MAEKAWA Masahide <gehenna@daemon-systems.org>
List: current-users
Date: 09/22/2003 15:45:59
Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org> wrote:
>> MAXUSERS isn't the maximum number of users.  It's just a configuaration
>> parameter that is then used to set other limits (for example, the
>> maximum number of file descriptors and processes available to the
>> entire system).  Look at a ports "arch/foo/conf/file.foo" file for the
>> "maxusers" line to see what the available range is.
>
>Wouldn't it be good if we eliminated it completely so max fds and
>max procs would only be limited by resources available to kernel at
>runtime? IIRC, FreeBSD did that some time ago.

This improves current situations around maxusers.
http://www.daemon-systems.org/dev/maxusers.diff.bz2

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