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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Kernel Config -- Whats the deal with MAXUSERS?
- Date: 23 Jul 1992 19:49:03 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- References: <14emaeINNd8b@early-bird.think.com> <1992Jul22.143012.28974@ugle.unit.no> <mjr.711911236@uther>
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- In article <mjr.711911236@uther> mjr@uther.calvin.edu (Matt Ranney) writes:
- >This chart has puzzled me ever since we got our 4/670. Why does
- >MAXUSERS have to be lower if you have more memory available?
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- The size of some kernel tables related to memory management are
- proportional to the amount of memory you have. There are probably some
- per-process data structures that have this property, so the number of
- processes goes down as the total memory goes up.
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- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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