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RE: [cobalt-users] How to create an account for maintain all ftp user's files?
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] How to create an account for maintain all ftp user's files?
- From: "Chris Demain" <cdemain@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Nov 28 14:31:06 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
>256! What dizzy heights! When they patched it, why didn't they choose
"unlimited"
>(well, that would have been a little more work) or
>at least "4096" or something.
>That was a very interesting read. I find it a bit scary though that people
put
>small numbers down like that (256 is small IMO, as is
>999 for children), and then have comments like "No limit :-)".
See my thread on the kernel setting where Cobalt engineers *reduced* the
number of available processes (#define NR_TASKS) from the default of 2560 to
512. This limit goes away completely in 2.4.x ...
(see http://people.redhat.com/alikins/system_tuning.html as a reference)
One has to wonder why these things are specifically, and intentionally
crippled.