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On Wednesday 19 November 2008, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> I installed FBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE amd64 version on an Intel Core2Duo box
> with 4 GB of RAM.  The main purpose of this box is to run the Urchin web
> analysis software from Google.  The Urchin installation docs
> (https://secure.urchin.com/helpwiki/en/Urchin_Installation_Guide_(FreeBSD_a
>nd_Linux)) 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?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Drew

I don't think you need to increase the datasize on 64bit FreeBSD. It seems 
that the default datasize is really large: 32GB

You can check using the 'limits' command.

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Pieter de Goeje