Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:29:13 +0000 (UTC) From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-6@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r187951 - stable/6/share/man/man7 Message-ID: <200901311229.n0VCTDpk024412@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: keramida (doc committer) Date: Sat Jan 31 12:29:12 2009 New Revision: 187951 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/187951 Log: MFC 166076 from /head : bms | 2007-01-18 00:23:28 +0200 : : Document the loader tunables which control hard process memory limits. : : Reviewed by: ru : PR: docs/118545 Modified: stable/6/share/man/man7/ (props changed) stable/6/share/man/man7/ports.7 (props changed) stable/6/share/man/man7/tuning.7 Modified: stable/6/share/man/man7/tuning.7 ============================================================================== --- stable/6/share/man/man7/tuning.7 Sat Jan 31 12:26:06 2009 (r187950) +++ stable/6/share/man/man7/tuning.7 Sat Jan 31 12:29:12 2009 (r187951) @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 25, 2002 +.Dd January 17, 2007 .Dt TUNING 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -743,6 +743,26 @@ option .Cd maxusers instead. .Pp +The +.Va kern.dfldsiz +and +.Va kern.dflssiz +tunables set the default soft limits for process data and stack size +respectively. +Processes may increase these up to the hard limits by calling +.Xr setrlimit 2 . +The +.Va kern.maxdsiz , +.Va kern.maxssiz , +and +.Va kern.maxtsiz +tunables set the hard limits for process data, stack, and text size +respectively; processes may not exceed these limits. +The +.Va kern.sgrowsiz +tunable controls how much the stack segment will grow when a process +needs to allocate more stack. +.Pp .Va kern.ipc.nmbclusters may be adjusted to increase the number of network mbufs the system is willing to allocate.
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