Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:18:45 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Ken Escape Meta Alt Control Shift Kanno <presence@symmetric.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MFS sizes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10012101315210.20875-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <20001210122732.K16205@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Ken " Escape Meta Alt Control Shift Kanno <presence@symmetric.net> [001210 12:21] wrote: > > I am not able to create MFS ramdisks larger than about 500MB. This seems to be > > because I nor mkfs are able to malloc more than 520185 k of RAM. I've tried 768 > > and 1024MB of RAM in my machine as well as swap sized of 256 and 1024MB. > > > > is there a reason for this limit or a workaround? > > You need to increase MAXDSIZ in your kernel as the MFS is allocated inside > a process's address space. BTW, You can just use ulimit or login.conf settings instead. The days of recompiling the kernel for every change are nearly over. Tom Uniserve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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