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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:05:55 -0600
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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Subject: Re: loader.conf != limits?
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In the last episode (Feb 27), Randy Schultz said:
> I've been running some code with larger data sets and needed to up
> some kernerl parameters.  I added this to loader.conf:
>    kern.maxdsiz="1073741824"
>    kern.dfldsiz="1073741824"
>    kern.maxssiz="134217728"
> 
> The odd thing is limits shows:
> Resource limits (current):
>   cputime          infinity secs
>   filesize         infinity kB
>   datasize          1048576 kB
>   stacksize          131072 kB
> 
> Anybody know what's up with this?

Should something be up?  1073741824/1024 is 1048576, which is what the
limit command shows.  The stack size hasn't changed because you didn't
set kern.dflssiz.  You can also set the default sizes in
/etc/login.conf.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com