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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!op.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Getty doesnot start on 11th connection.. Date: 17 Aug 1996 11:30:47 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4v4ah7$au3@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4up3uj$l9c@news3.realtime.net> <3214A3B3.29FA@cc.odu.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Jonathan Sturges <jonathan@cc.odu.edu> wrote: > I bet it might be that the GENERIC kernel has "maxusers" set to 10, so I > don't think it would let 11 on. I can't really speak for 2.0.5, but > 2.1R comes with maxusers=10 as the default. We are not SysV. ;-) `maxusers' is not the maximal number of allowed users, but a rough estimation of the size of several data structures in the kernel. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)