From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 17 23:44:59 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0935737B401 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 23:44:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from chkno.net (12-212-54-251.client.attbi.com [12.212.54.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EB0A43F3F for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 23:44:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chkno@chkno.net) Received: from chkno.net (chkno@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chkno.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1I7ipEZ023530; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 23:44:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chkno@chkno.net) Received: (from chkno@localhost) by chkno.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1I7ipJk023529; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 23:44:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 23:44:51 -0800 (PST) From: chkno Message-Id: <200302180744.h1I7ipJk023529@chkno.net> To: chkno@chkno.net, d.anker@au.darkbluesea.com Subject: Re: ulimit -d's upper limit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1045552823.9976.20.camel@duncan.au.darkbluesea.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > What defines ulimit -d's upper limit? > > MAXDSIZ. It defaults to 512Mb. It can be raised by setting it in the > kernel configuration, or adding > > kern.maxdsiz="524288" > > In your /boot/loader.conf file. Replace 524288 with whatever limit you > want, but don't go above 2^31-1. FreeBSD uses signed ints for this > value, so the results are interesting ... Does the 2^31-1 restriction apply to Alpha/uSPARC/etc? Does it become 2^63-1? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message