load testing and tuning a 4GB RAM server

Mattias Pantzare pantzer at ludd.luth.se
Sun Apr 6 12:43:40 PDT 2003


> The notion of tuning kernel variables to the amount of memory on the 
> _build_ system-- which is not always the same as the system which will 
> be running the kernel-- doesn't strike me as the right thing to do, so I 
> tend to set this to 64 or so by default, and then change it on a 
> case-by-case basis as the need arises.

That is why maxusers 0 will auto-size when the kernel _boots_. Not at 
buildtime.



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