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To: mwilson@flash.net
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Subject: Re: Stacksize 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 06:59:14 -0800
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>I am needing to increase the stacksize on a FreeBSD 2.1 system. Here 
>is my current limit after a unlimit:
>
>cputime         unlimited
>filesize        unlimited
>datasize        131072 kbytes
>stacksize       65536 kbytes
>coredumpsize    unlimited
>memoryuse       unlimited
>descriptors     2088
>memorylocked    61460 kbytes
>maxproc         1043
>
>
>Here is my unlimit on a Solaris box:
>
>filesize        unlimited
>datasize        2097148 kbytes
>stacksize       2097148 kbytes
>coredumpsize    unlimited
>descriptors     1024 
>memorysize      unlimited
>
>
>I have a program that requires a ton of stack and 65k is just not 
>enough.

   Um, that's 64MB. If you really need more than that, it can be increased by
modifying /sys/i386/include/vmparam.h - see "MAXSSIZ".


-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project