Re: max open files

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 09:53:29AM +0200, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 06:33:01AM +0000, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
> > this number is way too easy to hit just linking things in pkgsrc. can we
> > raise it? things fail hard when it is hit.
> > 
> > ive seen people say 'when your build dies, restart it with MAKE_JOBS=1
> > so it doesn't link in parallel'.
> 
> In the same vein, would a kernel with say "maxusers 256" make sense?

IMO maxusers should be removed and replaced by proper scaling of data
structures and limits based on RAM, nothing else.

Joerg