Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 16:16:38 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Frank Li <frank19991@hotmail.com> Cc: cswiger@mac.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increase memory limit ? Message-ID: <20030116151638.GP42719@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <F78ApR0Hy9Ngv2LHD3n00017a5a@hotmail.com> References: <F78ApR0Hy9Ngv2LHD3n00017a5a@hotmail.com>
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# frank19991@hotmail.com / 2003-01-15 22:02:49 -0600:
> >32-bit systems implementing VM typically could increase user-mode address
> >space up to 2 GB, although variants on that and other things (ie, where
> >devices get mapped into memory) make that only an approximation. For
> >FreeBSD:
> >
> ># 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. MAXSSIZ is the maximum that the stack limit can be
> ># set to. 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)"
> >options MAXSSIZ="(256*1024*1024)"
> >options DFLDSIZ="(256*1024*1024)"
> >
> >Depending on what you're doing, you might well find using a 64-bit
> >platform (Alpha hardware? Solaris on SPARC?) to be more appropriate...
>
> Which file should I put in the following ?
in your kernel configuration file, look in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/
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