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From: Karl Denninger  <karl@Mcs.Net>
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Subject: Re: Setting maximum RAM consumption by a process
To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 13:27:16 -0600 (CST)
Cc: karl@Mcs.Net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199611131837.NAA00686@dyson.iquest.net> from "John Dyson" at Nov 13, 96 01:37:39 pm
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> 
> > 
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I know how to do this for BSDI (maximum segment size) but not for FreeBSD,
> > and the same parameters don't appear to work.
> > 
> > Basically, our news server is now reaching a WSS of 100MB+, and we need to
> > increase it (because we're getting malloc failures and death of the process
> > :-)
> > 
> > The system has lots of RAM, so that's not a problem.
> > 
> > Anyone got the magic words for the config file?
> > 
> You can set it dynamically with ulimit (up it to 128M.)  Any further,
> you can set the config variables DFLDSIZ and MAXDSIZ to practically
> anything you want.  So, for 192MB
> 
> options "MAXDSIZ=201326592"
> options "DFLDSIZ=201326592"
> 
> John

Thanks.... we already had the "prestart" thing doing the set to 128MB, but
now I need to get beyond that :-)

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