From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 25 18:30:14 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D619D16A400 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 18:30:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fetrovsky@yahoo.com) Received: from web53910.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web53910.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.220]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F1AA13C455 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 18:30:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fetrovsky@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 98389 invoked by uid 60001); 25 May 2007 18:30:14 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=fKtb32pUVdOadVrw62S3fkvAdyqRIRHlyNKvtgHwRjIQFychREKq5pVfQ49c0rTFsuWKO9RDTL5jEou7/adsQf/oLTcj4adgWd66zOlcOqTiBSfvXzOSPGzNspfSg9orHET5KbmtxvsHKtKwi/i9ZnGLhNE//9O8WtHqSSejrkw=; X-YMail-OSG: 8WZNNEUVM1mJRARSN7PJImsMOT8nXHYs.w42xbcs_lKuIQSH1UJ3bGFcbYbkENE1Vsq4T_2kjy77H3sqHM8hTi_WUkRTD67SSYPfP4euSxx8tr10LupThHfoO5V84Q-- Received: from [128.195.4.221] by web53910.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 25 May 2007 11:30:13 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/651.23.1 YahooMailWebService/0.7.41.14 Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 11:30:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Daniel Valencia To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <120902.97783.qm@web53910.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maximum data size X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 18:30:14 -0000 Hey, thanks a lot!! that was it - Daniel ----- Original Message ---- From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith To: Daniel Valencia Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 11:11:29 AM Subject: Re: Maximum data size Daniel Valencia wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to allow a program to use more than 512MB of memory (specifically a little over 1GB), but I can't seem to be able to. I tried with ulimit -d 2097152, but when I check back again (immediately after setting it), it reads "data seg size (kbytes, -d) 524288" (again). I tried changing kern.maxdsiz, but I get "sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.maxdsiz'"... I'm running 6-STABLE as of two days ago. Change kern.maxdsiz in /boot/loader.conf. It is one of those variables that must be set at boot time. ____________________________________________________________________________________Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz