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From: Raul Zighelboim <mango@staff.communique.net>
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Subject:  about MAXDSIZ and DFLDSIZ under 2.2.2-RELEASE
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 07:34:00 -0500
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[Raul Zighelboim]  Hello!  I posted the following to freebsd-questions,
but I did not received any response (probably because I was not
subscribed to that list :-(  )..... So, here I go again:

> Hello there...
> 
> 	I am running a news server with 256megs or ram.  At some point
> every morning, afer running news.daily, the server has been crashing
> with the message:
> 
> SERVER cant remalloc 16323584 bytes Cannot allocate memory
> 
> I think I should be able to prevent this from happening by allowing
> news processes to use as much memory as they want (does this include
> swap space ?) witht he two options:
> 
> #options         "MAXDSIZ=(256*1024*1024)"
> #options         "DFLDSIZ=(256*1024*1024)"	
> 
> but as it happens, whenever I enable them, nothing other than the
> kernel will be able to run, with the message 'not enough memory to run
> application' '-)
> 
> I cannot find instructions anywhere (except under LINT) for this
> options.
> 
> So, the question:  What is the correct format of these options, and
> how do I build the kernel to allow inn (and other news processes) to
> use as much memory as they want (as long as they dont crash the
> system), while at the same time allowing me to run code (inn, for
> example) on thte server ?
> 
> Thanks.