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Subject: Re: MFS sizes
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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
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