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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!news.mathworks.com!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XTERM Problems Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 13:13:30 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3390866A.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <5mk5rp$788@nnrp4.farm.idt.net> <5mp5no$59p$2@nntp2.ba.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: Byron Brummer <byron@thrush.omix.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41980 Byron Brummer wrote: > options CHILD_MAX=128 > > or similar settings. > Also, maxusers should be set to at least 5 (I do 10). Why the hell > this isn't set the GERERIC kernel is beyond me... I doubt that the reason is beyond you so much as it's staring you right in the face and you're simply unable to see it. :-) GENERIC = GENERIC. Think about the dictionary definition, if you can. Is an X desktop with 4 xterms, a netscape and a fancy WM "generic?" No. That is not generic, that is a desktop configuration. Is a news server with 8 innds running and 6 drives stripped with ccd into a single volume generic? No, that is not generic either, that is a USENET news server configuration. Are both configurations *popular* ones for FreeBSD, seen frequently around the net and mentioned in various postings? Yes. Does popular = GENERIC? No. GENERIC = GENERIC. The lowest common demoninator. Are you starting to see the picture now? ;-) P.S. Yes, there's a snide tone to this posting and you're not imagining it. Sorry, it just happens to be my natural reaction to postings which say "why the *hell* isn't the world <some assertion, equally passionate and clueless>." If you want less snide, raise less hell. :) -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.