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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