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Date:      Sun, 10 Dec 2000 14:15:10 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
Cc:        Ken Escape Meta Alt Control Shift Kanno <presence@symmetric.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MFS sizes
Message-ID:  <20001210141509.O16205@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10012101315210.20875-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>; from tom@uniserve.com on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 01:18:45PM -0800
References:  <20001210122732.K16205@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10012101315210.20875-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>

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* Tom <tom@uniserve.com> [001210 13:18] wrote:
> 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.

That's incorrect.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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