> 2) It's unclear to me why we have limits.  Right now there is some
> (fairly small) amount of wired memory proportional to these limits.
> If it were dynamically allocated, so that asking for another
> semaphore just worked, that would be even better.

Except doesn't that open you up to a DoS attack, running the kernel out
of memory by creating a zillion semaphores?

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