Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:35:41 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 7.1 & kern.maxdsiz Message-ID: <4924243D.7050001@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <200811191051.10628.pieter@degoeje.nl> References: <49235108.2030907@mykitchentable.net> <200811191051.10628.pieter@degoeje.nl>
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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
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