From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 11 18:23:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from newman2.bestweb.net (newman2.bestweb.net [209.94.102.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B839937B434 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 18:16:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from okeeffe.bestweb.net (okeefe.bestweb.net [209.94.100.110]) by newman2.bestweb.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 123E723025; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:16:39 -0500 (EST) Received: by okeeffe.bestweb.net (Postfix, from userid 0) id 668239EFA8; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:11:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:10:09 -0800 (PST) From: Adam Nealis Subject: Re: Max size of a process in FreeBSD. To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Cc: Adam Nealis , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <20020212021145.668239EFA8@okeeffe.bestweb.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Doug White writes: > > It's limited to MAXDSIZ (max data size). > > Not quite - the size of the data segment is limited to the value of > 'limits -d', which starts out at DFLDSIZ and cannot be larger than > MAXDSIZ. Likewise, the size of the stack is limited to the value of > 'limits -s', which cannot be larger that MAXSSIZ. I don't think > there's a limit on text size (other than "total address space minus > kernel address space"), but a very large text segment will obviously > limit the size of the data and stack segments. > > > You can raise this up to 2GB or > > so, but you will eventually hit the KVM boundary. I don't recall what the > > KVM limit is right now, I thought it was 2GB but I think it was reduced > > recently ... > > The kernel address space used to be 256 MB in 3.x, but was bumped to 1 > GB before 4.0-RELEASE. See FAQ list entry 17.15. Which FAQ is that? The online FAQ at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html Only has "funnies" for section 17, and doesn't go up to 17.15. Adam. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message