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From: root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian)
Subject: Lack of tuning params in BSD
Organization: a consultant's basement
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1993 23:51:27 GMT
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I have noticed that BSD does not have the same kernel tuning parameters
as System V, like the max. number of processes, max number of mounted
file systems, or max. number of open files.

Does BSD dynamically allocate all of these, making tuning unnecessary?
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