Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:41:11 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FBSD 7.1 & kern.maxdsiz Message-ID: <20081119054111.GB77425@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <4923598F.2080601@mykitchentable.net> References: <49235108.2030907@mykitchentable.net> <20081119010109.5eff6215.freebsd@edvax.de> <4923598F.2080601@mykitchentable.net>
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On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:10:55PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > Polytropon wrote: >> On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:34:32 -0800, Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> wrote: >> >>> The Urchin installation docs [...] >>> contain a note for FreeBSD users waring of a "hard coded process >>> datasiz limit of 500 MB" and instruct on to set >>> "kern.maxdsiz="1073741824"" in /boot/loader.conf. However FBSD 7.1 >>> doesn't appear to have this sysctl. How can I do the equivalent of >>> this in FBSD 7.1? >>> >> >> Exactly, it is *not* a sysctl setting. It's a loader tunable, as >> I learned from this list some time ago. Don't search to find >> it in the sysctl list, you won't find it there. :-) >> >> In FreeBSD 7 you should be able to set this setting using >> the file /boot/loader.conf. I think I had this setting on a >> FreeBSD 5 machine, I'll go and check. >> > > Thanks for your reply. I guess I expected to be able to view it via > sysctl even though I understood it could only be changed with a reboot. > Is there some way to view the current setting? Through sysctl. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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