[email protected] (Erik Fair) writes:
>We (NetBSD) still have a historical construct in config(5) that a bunch of
>system-wide limits like MAXFILES are calculated from a presumed average or
>median amount of those resources per user, expressed as multiples of
>âmaxusers [n]â in config(5).
MAXFILES is fortunately no hard limit anymore, just the default that
you can override with sysctl.
The various platform defaults are also arbitrary.
maxusers 64 = 3404 descriptors
amd64, emips, i386, pmax, riscv, sparc64
maxusers 32 = 1772 descriptors
acorn32, arc, bebox, cats, cesfic, cobalt, epoc32, evbarm, hpcsh, hppa,
ia64, iyonix, macppc, netwinder, ofppc, prep, rs6000, sandpoint, sbmips,
shark, sparc, usermode, zaurus
maxusers 16 = 956 descriptors
atari, dreamcast, ews4800mips, hpcmips, landisk, mac68k, mipsco, mmeye,
newsmips, next68k
maxusers 8 = 548 descriptors
amiga, amigappc, hp300, ibmnws, luna68k, mvmeppc, news68k, vax, x68k
maxusers 4 = 344 descriptors
mvme68k, sun2, sun3
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Michael van Elst
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"A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."
