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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!vyzynz!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.etri.re.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD <- - Maximum number of processes? Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 16:54:11 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 11 Message-ID: <318FE2A3.31DFF4F5@FreeBSD.org> References: <4mkik8$1ta@orb.direct.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Randy Dufresne <hossers@Direct.CA> Randy Dufresne wrote: > Warning on the last part of the above paragraph taken, but just > how many concurrent processes can FreeBSD handle? It's entirely up to you - how much memory do you have, how high is `maxusers' set in your kernel configuration file, etc. FreeBSD systems with over 1000 users are certainly possible, given enough memory and a fast enough CPU. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project