From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 17 7:53:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5B3C37B408 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 07:53:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.bellavista.cz (mail.bellavista.cz [62.168.44.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8C4043F5B for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 07:53:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (freepuppy.bellavista.cz [10.0.0.10]) by mail.bellavista.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F022F9; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 16:16:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 75FF82FDB18; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 16:16:38 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 16:16:38 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Frank Li Cc: cswiger@mac.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increase memory limit ? Message-ID: <20030116151638.GP42719@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Frank Li , cswiger@mac.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG put your replies *below* the text you reply to. most questions@ subscribers are used to reading from top to bottom, from left to right. # 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/ -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message