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From: bill@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for a kernel parameter.
Date: 3 Apr 1997 16:00:13 GMT
Organization: University of Scranton, Scranton, PA
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In article <slrn5k7f88.66r.grr@shandakor.tharsis.com>,
grr@shandakor.tharsis.com (George Robbins) writes:
>
> Many of the parameters are set in a little file param.c that's created/copied
> into the compile directory when you run configure. Lots of them are dependent
> on the maxusers line in the configuration file, jacking up maxusers to like
> 16 or 32 is a good way to say, "bigger system". Other parameters that are
> calculated on the fly can often be overridden by putting an initial value in
> a global variable, but you have to dig into the source for that.
>
Thanks. That was the pointer I needed. I found OPEN_MAX and doubled it.
64 seems a little on the low side for a server anyway. The first thing
I tried was uping MAXUSERS, but that changes system total but not per-
process total. Hopefully that will solve at least one of my INN problems.
All the best.
bill
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