From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 14:35:46 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73571106567A for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:35:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: from smtpauth.surewest.net (smtpauth.surewest.net [66.60.130.153]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 582F88FC0C for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:35:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (unknown [69.62.230.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtpauth.surewest.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E35059BF70; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:35:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (bigdaddy.mykitchentable.net [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3160B164D48; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:35:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4924243D.7050001@mykitchentable.net> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:35:41 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pieter de Goeje References: <49235108.2030907@mykitchentable.net> <200811191051.10628.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <200811191051.10628.pieter@degoeje.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 7.1 & kern.maxdsiz X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:35:46 -0000 Pieter de Goeje wrote: > 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. > Thank you. You are correct. urchin> limits -Hd Resource limits (current): datasize 33554432 kB I guess I need to look elsewhere to resolve my problem. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com