maxusers in config file (4BSD)

[Chris Torek]

Sigh.  ``maxusers'' doesn't limit the number of people who can log in;
it's supposed to be the largest number of people you expect to be bashing
away at any one time.  It controls the size of a lot of system tables.
If those tables overflow, you get lots of things printed on your console,
and programs won't run, but nothing drastic happens.

You can have maxusers set to 10 and have 10 thousand people logged in;
the system won't care, but only about 10 of them will have enough resources
available to get things done.

If you aren't getting ``file table full'' or ``inode table full'' or
shell gripes about ``no more processes'' when starting programs, then
your maxusers is probably not set too small.
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