import java.io.*;
import java.util.Arrays;

/**
 * @author tutuz on 2020/08/30
 */
public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        InputStream inputStream = System.in;
        OutputStream outputStream = System.out;
        MyInput in = new MyInput(inputStream);
        PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(outputStream);
        TaskX solver = new TaskX();
        solver.solve(1, in, out);
        out.close();
    }

    static int INF = 1 << 30;
    static long LINF = 1L << 55;
    static int MOD = 1000000007;
    static int[] mh4 = {0, -1, 1, 0};
    static int[] mw4 = {-1, 0, 0, 1};
    static int[] mh8 = {-1, -1, -1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1};
    static int[] mw8 = {-1, 0, 1, -1, 1, -1, 0, 1};

    static class TaskX {
        int MAX = 200010;

        public void solve(int testNumber, MyInput in, PrintWriter out) {
            UnionFind uf = new UnionFind(MAX);
            int n = in.nextInt(), m = in.nextInt();
            for (int i = 0; i < m; i++) {
                int a = in.nextInt() - 1, b = in.nextInt() - 1;
                uf.union(a, b);
            }

            int ans = 0;
            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
                if (ans < uf.size(i)) {
                    ans = uf.size(i);
                }
            }

            out.println(ans);
        }

        class UnionFind {
            int[] data;

            public UnionFind(int size) {
                data = new int[size];
                clear();
            }

            public void clear() {
                Arrays.fill(data, -1);
            }

            public int root(int x) {
                return data[x] < 0 ? x : (data[x] = root(data[x]));
            }

            public void union(int x, int y) {
                x = root(x);
                y = root(y);

                if (x != y) {
                    if (data[y] > data[x]) {
                        final int t = x;
                        x = y;
                        y = t;
                    }

                    data[x] += data[y];
                    data[y] = x;
                }
            }

            boolean same(int x, int y) {
                return root(x) == root(y);
            }

            public int size(int x) {
                return -data[root(x)];
            }
        }
    }

    static class MyInput {
        private final BufferedReader in;
        private static int pos;
        private static int readLen;
        private static final char[] buffer = new char[1024 * 8];
        private static char[] str = new char[500 * 8 * 2];
        private static boolean[] isDigit = new boolean[256];
        private static boolean[] isSpace = new boolean[256];
        private static boolean[] isLineSep = new boolean[256];

        static {
            for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
                isDigit['0' + i] = true;
            }
            isDigit['-'] = true;
            isSpace[' '] = isSpace['\r'] = isSpace['\n'] = isSpace['\t'] = true;
            isLineSep['\r'] = isLineSep['\n'] = true;
        }

        public MyInput(InputStream is) {
            in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
        }

        public int read() {
            if (pos >= readLen) {
                pos = 0;
                try {
                    readLen = in.read(buffer);
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    throw new RuntimeException();
                }
                if (readLen <= 0) {
                    throw new EndOfFileRuntimeException();
                }
            }
            return buffer[pos++];
        }

        public int nextInt() {
            int len = 0;
            str[len++] = nextChar();
            len = reads(len, isSpace);
            int i = 0;
            int ret = 0;
            if (str[0] == '-') {
                i = 1;
            }
            for (; i < len; i++)
                ret = ret * 10 + str[i] - '0';
            if (str[0] == '-') {
                ret = -ret;
            }
            return ret;
        }

        public long nextLong() {
            int len = 0;
            str[len++] = nextChar();
            len = reads(len, isSpace);
            int i = 0;
            long ret = 0;
            if (str[0] == '-') {
                i = 1;
            }
            for (; i < len; i++)
                ret = ret * 10 + str[i] - '0';
            if (str[0] == '-') {
                ret = -ret;
            }
            return ret;
        }

        public char nextChar() {
            while (true) {
                final int c = read();
                if (!isSpace[c]) {
                    return (char) c;
                }
            }
        }

        public String nextString() {
            return new String(nextChars());
        }

        public char[] nextChars() {
            int len = 0;
            str[len++] = nextChar();
            len = reads(len, isSpace);
            return Arrays.copyOf(str, len);
        }

        public char[][] next2DChars(int h, int w) {
            char[][] s = new char[h][w];
            for (int i = 0; i < h; i++) {
                s[i] = nextChars();
            }
            return s;
        }

        int reads(int len, boolean[] accept) {
            try {
                while (true) {
                    final int c = read();
                    if (accept[c]) {
                        break;
                    }
                    if (str.length == len) {
                        char[] rep = new char[str.length * 3 / 2];
                        System.arraycopy(str, 0, rep, 0, str.length);
                        str = rep;
                    }
                    str[len++] = (char) c;
                }
            } catch (EndOfFileRuntimeException e) {
            }
            return len;
        }

        public int[] nextIntArray(final int n) {
            final int[] res = new int[n];
            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
                res[i] = nextInt();
            }
            return res;
        }

        public int[] nextIntArray1Index(final int n) {
            final int[] res = new int[n + 1];
            for (int i = 1; i < n + 1; i++) {
                res[i] = nextInt();
            }
            return res;
        }

        public int[] nextIntArrayDec(final int n) {
            final int[] res = new int[n];
            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
                res[i] = nextInt() - 1;
            }
            return res;
        }

        public long[] nextLongArray(final int n) {
            final long[] res = new long[n];
            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
                res[i] = nextLong();
            }
            return res;
        }

        public long[] nextLongArray1Index(final int n) {
            final long[] res = new long[n + 1];
            for (int i = 1; i < n + 1; i++) {
                res[i] = nextLong();
            }
            return res;
        }

        public long[] nextLongArrayDec(final int n) {
            final long[] res = new long[n];
            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
                res[i] = nextLong() - 1;
            }
            return res;
        }

        public double nextDouble() {
            return Double.parseDouble(nextString());
        }

        public double[] nextDoubleArray(int n) {
            double[] res = new double[n];
            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
                res[i] = nextDouble();
            }
            return res;
        }

        static class EndOfFileRuntimeException extends RuntimeException {
        }

    }
}


Measured memory_bytes: 52084