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Subject: Re: FBSD 7.1 & kern.maxdsiz
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On Wednesday 19 November 2008 15:43:27 Drew Tomlinson wrote:

> Thanks for the explanation!  As pointed out by Pieter de Goeje, the
> default size in FBSD 7 amd 64 is 32 GB, confirmed with the limits
> command above.  Thus datasize does not appear to be my problem.  I'm
> shooting in the dark here as Urchin software support is non-existent.
> Are there any other tuneables related to datasize that I might try
> increasing?

If the soft limit is set to 'unlimitied' for the user running the program, 
then it is not a datasize problem. You may simply be out of memory. Can you 
track using top(1) how far the software gets and what the memory usage is at 
around the time it crashes?

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.