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Date:      Fri, 1 Feb 2002 10:36:25 -0800 (PST)
From:      Peter Gatsoulis <kjerstes@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        pg@eth1.com
Subject:   Increasing the available address space in 4.3
Message-ID:  <20020201183625.37387.qmail@web9704.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020131213819.96686.qmail@web20408.mail.yahoo.com>

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Pls someone help out w/ this
A friend I work with posted it yesterday w/o any
responses.
Pls also reply to me as I cannot subscribe to the list
@this time. Thanx much to any repondents in advance.

I need to run large address space jobs using FreeBSD
4.3
 
I have already upp'ed the available space to about
1.5GB (6 * 256MB).  But that was not enough and
now I would like to go to at least 2GB or perhaps
2.5GB
 
At present time we have the following params in the
kernel config;
MAXDSIZ="(1024*1024*6*256)"
DFLDSIZ="(1024*1024*6*256)"
 
Also kernel has been slimmed down to exclude any and
all unnecessary devices and parameters we are
not using.

We have a machine which is 1.5GB mem running at 1.4GHz
(AMD Athlon) we have 6 others which are .5GB each
running at 1.4GHz as well. All run FBSD4.3
So far we're very pleased w/ stability and perf.
None require X, all run just in console mode

Can you help me understand what I need to do.  I am
an experienced programmer and this is quite
important to me.
 
My application does not require any graphics or X
support. we haven't installed X on any machines even
as it's not needed.  All I need to do is issue many
large mallocs'.  (Seems so simple, doesn't it.)

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