From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 15:23:59 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 016771065675 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:23:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D29898FC12 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:23:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA13.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.52]) by QMTA03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id h1EK1a00417UAYkA33PyXN; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:23:58 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA13.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id h3Pw1a00a2P6wsM8Z3PwVc; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:23:57 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=KPFlhq66QPpwKfQVhowA:9 a=Xf6XNC33jB_cNw10XIOxRJwJzRcA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=Sllw8v0m4fwA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A8E4133C36; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:23:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:23:56 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Drew Tomlinson Message-ID: <20081119152356.GA90207@icarus.home.lan> References: <49235108.2030907@mykitchentable.net> <20081119054111.GB77425@icarus.home.lan> <49241D7E.5090600@mykitchentable.net> <200811191516.07650.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <4924260F.9040708@mykitchentable.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4924260F.9040708@mykitchentable.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: Polytropon , Mel , 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 15:23:59 -0000 On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 06:43:27AM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > Mel wrote: >> On Wednesday 19 November 2008 15:06:54 Drew Tomlinson wrote: >> >>> Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:10:55PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: >>>> >>>>> Polytropon wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:34:32 -0800, Drew Tomlinson >> wrote: >> >>>>>>> The Urchin installation docs [...] >>>>>>> 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? >>>>>>> >>>>>> Exactly, it is *not* a sysctl setting. It's a loader tunable, as >>>>>> I learned from this list some time ago. Don't search to find >>>>>> it in the sysctl list, you won't find it there. :-) >>>>>> >>>>>> In FreeBSD 7 you should be able to set this setting using >>>>>> the file /boot/loader.conf. I think I had this setting on a >>>>>> FreeBSD 5 machine, I'll go and check. >>>>>> >>>>> Thanks for your reply. I guess I expected to be able to view it via >>>>> sysctl even though I understood it could only be changed with a reboot. >>>>> Is there some way to view the current setting? >>>>> >>>> Through sysctl. >>>> >>> OK, what am I missing? >>> >>> urchin# sysctl -a | grep maxdsiz >>> compat.ia32.maxdsiz: 536870912 >>> compat.linux32.maxdsiz: 536870912 >>> >> >> >> limits -H. Some loader tuneables aren't exported to sysctl. >> >> $ limits -Hd >> Resource limits (current): >> datasize 786432 kB >> >> $ grep maxdsiz /boot/loader.conf >> kern.maxdsiz="768M" >> > > 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? It would help greatly if you could explain what the problem is that you're trying to track down? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |