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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:47:02 +1000

>> Sorry this limit is too small. Many of my customer machines would collapse.
> 
> So what would a reasonable upper limit be? Surely we should cap it at some
> point?

32MB is even small for some people.

Like Eric, I think the current cap is just fine.  For special
situations, tweak settings :)