Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 20:55:01 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: current@freebsd.org, nisha@cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: Max data segment size Message-ID: <199605100155.UAA00255@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199605092258.PAA14319@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu> from "Satoshi Asami" at May 9, 96 03:58:50 pm
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> > I tried doing an OPTIONS "MAXDSIZ=268435456" in my kernel config file, > and the resulting kernel seems to be doing ok, and at least it passes > the "malloc 1MB chunks until you blow up" test with flying colors (I > know, it's not much of a test, I'm now running fsck with a 140-MB > data segment which instigated this). > > What are the rationales behind this being in a machine-specific system > header file, in other words, does this mean that I can't increase the > max data segment size beyond 128MB on an x86? Did I just stomp on > someone's toe in my quest to the biggest filesystem in the world? > > Satoshi > > I think that you should have no problem unless you don't leave enough space for shared libs and/or stack... John
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