Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:50:00 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: FreeBSD_Questions FreeBSD_Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: exited on signal 6 Message-ID: <05ED6F07-4844-11D8-904E-000393BB56F2@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <200401161709.25264.freebsd-questions@webteckies.org> References: <200401160955.25957.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> <200401161709.25264.freebsd-questions@webteckies.org>
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On Jan 16, 2004, at 10:09 AM, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:
> On Friday 16 January 2004 16:55, David Kelly wrote:
>
>> Have seen the size over 525M. In any case for this particular
>> newsgroup
>> pan core dumps on signal 6. An "abort"? Where is this signal coming
>> from?
>
> From malloc() most probably.
> Check the value of MAXDSIZ in your kernel config, or use limits -d to
> find out
> that the default maximum data size for any process is 512Megs.
Sure enough, limits -d says 512M. The core dump was 480M so maybe it
blew up on attempt to allocate a bunch more.
Didn't find any mention of these limits mentioned in
/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/ but
"find /usr/src/sys -type f -exec grep -l MAXDSIZ "{}" \;" turned up
/usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES which had more stuff that I had not seen
including examples of how to set the default and the absolute max.
So have launched a build with limits set to 1GB and will see how that
fares.
Thanks!
--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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