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From: rees@pisa.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: How to modify the "kernel'?
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Date: 7 Sep 90 17:36:50 GMT
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In article <25786@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, huntting@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Brad Huntting) writes:
  I too would like to change some system paramaters on my gateway machine
  which runs several daemons, and cnews.  Specifically the 'max open files'
  parameter.

128 is too many and you want to reduce it to the standard 20?

  When are companies (hp/apollo, dec, +many others) going to learn that
  nonstandard software environments are expensive, and *devalue* their
  systems?

If you don't like it, go buy a PDP-11 and run v7 on it.