On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 03:36:33PM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:

> 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.

That's certainly an idea with merit.  I don't know how hard it would be
to make those tables dynamic, but even making boot-time descisions based
on available resources sounds like a good idea.

Does anyone have a pointer to how FreeBSD chose to size those
parameters?

Simon.
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