Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:22:31 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Giuseppe Pagnoni <gpagnon@emory.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: limit datasize Message-ID: <20060421142231.GA73063@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <497ABD6A-3187-49C3-9A22-FB5E7918BC15@emory.edu> References: <497ABD6A-3187-49C3-9A22-FB5E7918BC15@emory.edu>
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In the last episode (Apr 21), Giuseppe Pagnoni said: > I am running into a memory problem when using large datasets. The > limit command shows: > > cputime unlimited > filesize unlimited > datasize 524288 kbytes > stacksize 65536 kbytes > > however, /etc/login.conf shows that the default setting is "unlimited": > > :datasize=unlimited:\ > > Any suggestion on how to increase the limits? The kernel imposes a hard limit on datasize that defaults to 512M (which is pretty small nowadays). You can raise it by adding "kern.maxdsize=4G" to /boot/loader.conf and rebooting. You can use "kern.maxssize" to adjust the hard stack limit, but it's rare that soemone needs to go above the default 64M. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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