On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:21:24PM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> 
> > However, I couldn't run more than 4085 processes at a time. I raised
> > maxusers in kernel config file to 1000, and then 2000, but the hard
> > limit didn't change at all.
> > 
> > Also I'm wondering why I got the following warning:
> > 
> > $ config KRISHNA
> > KRISHNA:27: warning: maxusers (1000) > 128
> > ...
> > 
> > Does that imply that NetBSD doesn't scale well enough to serve hundreds
> > of users on a single machine, or something merely to give user a hint
> > that there might a mistake w.r.t configuration?
> 
> MAXUSERS isn't the maximum number of users.  It's just a configuaration
> parameter that is then used to set other limits (for example, the
> maximum number of file descriptors and processes available to the
> entire system).  Look at a ports "arch/foo/conf/file.foo" file for the
> "maxusers" line to see what the available range is.

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.

Jun-Young

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Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@NetBSD.org>