From cbd82a22eb0cfd32889e7ddd74fa8b0edf1adf19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Felix Johnson Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 14:15:08 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] config(5): Update upper limit for maxusers on 64-bit systems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The limit of 384 maxusers for auto configuration was only imposed on 32-bit systems. Document that maxusers scales above 384 based on memory for 64-bit systems. PR: 204938 Reported by: David Höppner <0xffea@gmail.com> (cherry picked from commit 191c624d9519a2767801de390b192ee7a96b41cd) --- usr.sbin/config/config.5 | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/usr.sbin/config/config.5 b/usr.sbin/config/config.5 index 9b26326ea86..15f92ea735e 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/config/config.5 +++ b/usr.sbin/config/config.5 @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd February 9, 2020 +.Dd October 28, 2021 .Dt CONFIG 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -329,7 +329,9 @@ A value of 0 indicates that the kernel should configure its data structures according to the size of available physical memory. If auto configuration is requested, the kernel will set -this tunable to a value between 32 and 384. +this tunable to a value between 32 and 384 for 32-bit systems, +or scale the value higher based on available memory for 64-bit +systems. .Pp As explained in .Xr tuning 7 ,