On Mon, 9 Mar 1998 15:32:19 -0700 (MST) 
 Chris Jones <cjones@honors.montana.edu> wrote:

 > So, does maxusers actually have any effect on the maximum number of users
 > the system can support?  In other words, if I expect to have more than 64
 > users log onto the system concurrently, do I need to set maxusers to more
 > than 64, or can I get away with setting pseudo-device pty to a big number,
 > and leave it at that?

The maxusers parameter is merely a hint to various tunables in the
system.  It does things like adjust the size of kmem_map, the number
of processes, etc.  It really has nothing to do with the number of
users that are allowed to log in.

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