From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 15 10:07:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22838 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 10:07:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net (porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net [206.64.4.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22833 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 10:07:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA06490; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 13:08:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 13:08:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net To: "Marc G. Fournier" cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upping process limits... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG you don't have a snap of that source code available to rebuild a kernel from back then with? have you looked into using an earlier version of the sources? you're able to ask for an older source tree by setting some flag in a cvsup file, check the man page or the older lists. (i don't know how far back you can go though) yes, you have a hard limit, yes you need a new kernel. -Alfred On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > I'm running a 3.0-current build of around the end of July this year, so > pre-ELF stuff and have hit a snag... > > I need to increase the news processes datasize and stack limits, and can't > seem to get them above 256Meg, even with modifying /etc/login.conf (and > running cap_mkdb)... > > I had, at one point, added MAXDSIZ and DLTDSIZ values of 256Meg to my > kernel, and suspect that this has created a *hard limit* to th emax,which > login.conf can't override. Is this correct? > > If so, is there any way around this, without my having to rebuild? I've > been putting off upgradeing to the current 3.0-ELF stuff for two > reasons...fear and beign 2500kilometers away from the server :( > > Is there any sysctl value I can set or something like that? > > Thanks... > > Marc G. Fournier scrappy@hub.org > Systems Administrator @ hub.org > scrappy@{postgresql|isc}.org ICQ#7615664 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message