Peter Seebach wrote:
> But we already HAVE them; there are default limits.  I just propose to have
> them expressed in an editable text file rather than buried in the kernel.

The kernel knows how much RAM the machine has once booted. A file doesn't
and there's no way to use expressions or relative values in login.conf. The
more arbitrary settings like "number of open files" could of course be
mirrored in login.conf.

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Christian