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Date:      Fri, 29 Oct 1999 07:18:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What's the maximum data deg size?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910290717510.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910291450310.22517-100000@localhost>

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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Mark Powell wrote:

> 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.

did you try adding that option but maybe 1024*1024*1024?

-Alfred



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