From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 6:51:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from amalthea.salford.ac.uk (amalthea.salford.ac.uk [146.87.255.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33858155CF for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 06:51:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk) Received: (qmail 13174 invoked by alias); 29 Oct 1999 13:51:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 13156 invoked from network); 29 Oct 1999 13:51:27 -0000 Received: from plato.salford.ac.uk (146.87.255.76) by amalthea.salford.ac.uk with SMTP; 29 Oct 1999 13:51:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 23273 invoked by uid 141); 29 Oct 1999 13:51:27 -0000 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 14:51:26 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Powell X-Sender: mark@localhost To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's the maximum data deg size? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > I seem to be unable to raise the maximum data seg size: > > > > data seg size (kbytes) 524288 > # Certain applications can grow to be larger than the 128M limit > # that FreeBSD initially imposes. Below are some options to > # allow that limit to grow to 256MB, and can be increased further > # with changing the parameters. MAXDSIZ is the maximum that the > # limit can be set to, and the DFLDSIZ is the default value for > # the limit. You might want to set the default lower than the > # max, and explicitly set the maximum with a shell command for processes > # that regularly exceed the limit like INND. > # > options MAXDSIZ="(256*1024*1024)" But that's 256MB? I'm hitting a 512MB limit. > options DFLDSIZ="(256*1024*1024)" > > Also make sure your login limits aren't being exhausted, type 'limit' > and check out LOGIN.CONF(5). There's only one default entry in login.conf and everything is set to unlimited. Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - Clifford Whitworth Building A.I.S., University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 5936 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key M.S.Powell@ais.salfrd.ac.uk (spell salford correctly to reply to me) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message