From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 30 14:59:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0288A16A420 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:59:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from david@landgren.net) Received: from sferics.mongueurs.net (sferics.mongueurs.net [81.80.147.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6700A43D45 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:59:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from david@landgren.net) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (exo.bpinet.com [81.80.147.206]) by sferics.mongueurs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26754AA89; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:59:36 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <438DBE30.6020903@landgren.net> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:58:56 +0100 From: David Landgren Organization: The Lusty Decadent Delights of Imperial Pompeii User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tomas Palfi References: <119D03CDAA26274786799627855EC43D67F597@indy.enzo.phoenixmedical.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <119D03CDAA26274786799627855EC43D67F597@indy.enzo.phoenixmedical.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: maximum process limit X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:59:38 -0000 Tomas Palfi wrote: > To all, > > I am running squid-2.5 STABLE10 on 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD in production, > and I am trying to increase the maximum process size to be 2GB. I have > found a few references, however, they are all related to older releases > (FreeBSD 3) of FreeBSD. As this server is already in production, I just > want to make sure that I am doing the right thing and the 2GB mem size > is being supported on the above version. > > Can I have an option in the kernel > > option "MAXDSIZE=\(2048*1024*1024\)" Don't know that you need to backslash the parens there. > will this option alone change the default maximum process size? Or do I > have to edit the login.conf file to override the details as well as the > kernel changes? No, recompiling (and installing) the kernel is all you need to do. David -- "It's overkill of course, but you can never have too much overkill."