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From: src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why is my Unix limiting me to 10 semaphores?
Message-ID: <1990Sep21.002250.23557@scuzzy.in-berlin.de>
Date: 21 Sep 90 00:22:50 GMT
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cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>For many of the things in the mtune file, someone has picked what they
>think is a "reasonable" maximum and not what is really the "true" 
>maximum.  This is the case with the ULIMIT parameter and probably the 
>SEMMNI parameter as well.  The only way to know is to change it, rebuild
>the kernel, and reboot. 

funny, just what i thought yesterday about NMOUNT (max mountpoints).
if they do say blah[NMOUNT] i should be able to set this to whatever
is "reasonable" (i.e. not 99999999 or somesuch sh*t) without wasting
memory. for instance under xenix you can have up to *18* hard disks,
and that means *lots* of mount points.
interactive thinks 25 filesystems is max, but if i connect four 1.5GB
disks (on one scsi host adapter, it supports *two* -- can i connect *8*
disks??) this might not be enough. i'm already at 10 filesystems with
800MB hard disk space.
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