What purpose does the maxusers variable serve?

What purpose does the maxusers variable serve?



The maxusers variable has nothing to do with the number of
user allowed on a system. It's one big knob that scales a number
of other parameters simultaneously. The standard settings and
derivations are more or less as follows, using /etc/system syntax: 




	* The big knob, scales automatically


	set maxusers = <amount of available physical memory in MB>





	* Maximum number of allowable processes; currently at most 30000


	set max_nprocs = 10 + 16 * maxusers





	* Max processes per user (5 are reserved for the super user)


	set maxuprc = max_nprocs - 5;





	* Number of quota structures (need one per user per filesystem


	* w/ quotas)


	set ndquot = maxusers * NMOUNT / 4 + max_nprocs





	* Maximum size of the directory name lookup cache (DNLC)


	set ncsize = 4 * (max_nprocs + maxusers) + 320


	set ufs_ninode = ncsize




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