From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 1 16:57:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c3po.lpl.arizona.edu (c3po.LPL.Arizona.EDU [128.196.64.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73BBE37B400 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 16:57:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jbarnes@localhost) by c3po.lpl.arizona.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g220vRw12922; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:57:27 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from jbarnes@c3po.lpl.arizona.edu) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:57:27 -0700 (MST) From: Jason Barnes To: David Greenman Cc: Erik Trulsson , , , Wayne Barnes Subject: Re: out of memory, but there's plenty left! In-Reply-To: <20020301094759.F35679@nexus.root.com> Message-ID: <20020301175504.I12903-100000@c3po.lpl.arizona.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 > >options MAXDSIZ="(2048*1024*1024)" > >options MAXSSIZ="(2048*1024*1024)" > >options DFLDSIZ="(2048*1024*1024)" > > > >and now everything works without any prolems! Awesome! Thank you very > >much for your help! > > That was a bit overly aggressive and will almost certainly cause you > problems. The kernel has to organize the process virtual address space, and > there's only about 3GB available. The above tells the kernel that you want > 2GB each for stack and data...which is not going to work like you want. It seemed that the limits were 512MB before, this isn't THAT great a change. What kind of problems do you anticipate might crop up as a result of requiring the kernel to allow so much space for processes? Thanks for your help, - Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message