Installation guide

system performance begins to degrade.
• Packetfilter limits
The packetfilter pseudo-driver can support up to 255 simultaneous open
filters (each filter is usually mapped to one instance of an application
program). The packetfilter can support a maximum of 255 devices. Use
the pfconfig command to configure packet filters.
• Network transfer rates
For information on network transfer rates, see the Technical Overview.
A.1.9 Limits for Backup Utilities
The limits for the backup utilities are as follows:
• cpio
Files per archive: No limit
Files per file system: No limit
File size: 4 GB
File name size: 256 bytes
• dd
Files per archive: Not used
Files per file system: Not used
File size: 4 GB
File name size: Not used
• dump
Files per archive: 4,000,000,000
Files per file system: 4,000,000,000
File size: 4 GB
File name size: No limit (part of the inode data)
• vdump
Files per archive: maximum files per fileset
Files per file system: file system dependent
File size: file system dependent
File name size: 1024 bytes (with prefix)
A–8 System Limits