On Fri, 14 May 1999, David E. Cross wrote:

> > It's been noted on several occasions that with large (> 256MB) of RAM, one
> > has to be "careful" with the configuration (NMBCLUSTERS, MAXUSERS) to
> > prevent the box from falling over every few days due to kvm problems.
> > 
> > Can somebody be more specific?  I'm just about to order a really, really
> > expensive machine and I want to be sure I can get it to work .. :) 
> > 
> > Chuck Youse 
> 
> This was fixed somewhere in the 3.1-STABLE branch, you will not need to worry
> about this at all with 3.2-BETA/3.2-RELEASE.
> 
I thought so as well, however I added a 64 meg dimm and ran into the same
problems he is describing. After I remembered the problem. I lowered the
value of maxusers and everything is back to normal. This is on 4.0 -
Current. btw..

1 - 128 meg dimm
1 - 64  meg dimm

and for the record

750 meg of swap space

rob



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