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Subject: Re: FBSD 7.1 & kern.maxdsiz
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On Wednesday 19 November 2008 16:05:33 Mel wrote:
> 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?

But of course, if this binary runs in 32-bit mode, this applies:
compat.ia32.maxdsiz: 536870912

-- 
Mel

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