SUMMARY: How is the size of maxusers determined?

Thanks to everyone who replied. The max level according to sun docs is
4096, which has to be set within /etc/system.


> _____________________________________________
> From: 	Austin, Ben
> Sent:	28 June 2005 11:48
> To:	'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
> Subject:	How is the size of maxusers determined?
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to determine the default value of tunable parameter
> "maxusers". Sunsolve states:
>
> * maxusers is a tunable parameter at the kernel level that is set to
> the number of megabytes of memory installed on the system
>
> We have 16GB of memory. Does this mean that maxusers will be set to
> 16384? This seems unnecessarily high. Can any one give me any more
> info regarding this??
>
> Thanks
> Ben


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