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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: how to increase stacksize?
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On Apr 4, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I'd like to increase stacksize.  How do I do this?

Set kern.maxssiz in /boot/loader.conf to a larger value-- also consider tweaking kern.dflssiz, unless you want to use limit/ulimit before invoking the process.  I don't believe you can change it for a running system via sysctl, although I could be mistaken on that....

Regards,
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-Chuck