Re: 19.5 hours to build KDE... kernel at fault?

From: Lee Harr (missive_at_frontiernet.net)
Date: 10/28/03 

Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:36:05 GMT

> exotic-sounding errors from the KDE init process, and KDE keeps either
> freezing, or dropping back to the console, sometimes complaining of
> signal 11 errors, other times moaning about the file table being full
> (unable to create I/O slave: too many open files).
>
> Is this likely to be my custom kernel, or is something more serious
> going on?
>
> My custom kernel is basically just every device commented out unless it
> was already detected and present in dmesg. Except scbus and da, which
> were needed by a couple of other devices.
>
> I also specified 686 as my CPU type (I'm using a Celeron), and maxusers
> of 6, because I'm the only one using my machine.
>
> Have I done something stupid?

maxusers 6 is too low.

I believe the recommendation recently has been to use maxusers 0
and let the system work out what the correct values are.