From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 6 13:15:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.122.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3656737B405 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:15:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.11.3/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g16LFbJ75606; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:15:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:15:37 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Adam Nealis Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Max size of a process in FreeBSD. In-Reply-To: <20020206202355.96529.qmail@web20710.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20020206131406.X73049-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> X-All-Your-Base: are belong to us MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Adam Nealis wrote: > I think I've done due diligence, so may I respectfully > ask if anyone can tell me what is the largest size in > main RAM a process can have under FreeBSD? It's limited to MAXDSIZ (max data size). You can raise this up to 2GB or so, but you will eventually hit the KVM boundary. I don't recall what the KVM limit is right now, I thought it was 2GB but I think it was reduced recently ... You can also resize KVM but of course you do so at your own risk. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message