From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 6:55:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD19155D7 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 06:55:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA16823; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 07:18:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 07:18:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Mark Powell 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message