From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 27 03:26:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA09824 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 03:26:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from orbit.flnet.com (orbit.flnet.com [205.240.232.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA09819 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 03:26:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from henrich@orbit.flnet.com) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by orbit.flnet.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) id GAA00753; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 06:26:15 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19981127032614.48228@orbit.flnet.com> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 03:26:14 -0800 From: Charles Henrich To: dg@root.com Cc: Mats Dufberg , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1GB Memory? Mail-Followup-To: dg@root.com, Mats Dufberg , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19981127025303.36309@orbit.flnet.com> <199811271117.DAA00251@root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199811271117.DAA00251@root.com>; from David Greenman on Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 03:17:46AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-BETA_A X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1024/F7 FD C7 3A F5 6A 23 BF 76 C4 B8 C9 6E 41 A4 4F Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On the subject of Re: 1GB Memory?, David Greenman stated: > >D'oh! I knew those were there... I've been ignoring them out of habit > >since FreeBSD 3.0 now correctly probes memory size... Apparently the > >default probe doesnt set the max datasize to the max value however. Thanks > >for pointing this out -- I think its time for bed now :) > > Uh, the maximum datasize is a per-process limit on virtual memory and has > nothing to do with the amount of physical memory in the machine. Good point, again I really ought to sleep. Technically wouldnt it be accurate to say that the maxdsize should be the amount of physical memory plus the amount of swap available? -Crh Charles Henrich Manex Visual Effects henrich@flnet.com http://orbit.flnet.com/~henrich To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message