Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 13:58:14 +0800 From: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, Adrian Thearle <adrian@thearle.com.au> Subject: Re: Maximum memory allocation per process Message-ID: <20080530135814.390321ee@prophet.alphaque.com> In-Reply-To: <20080522133819.GA45578@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <48356E75.1050105@thearle.com.au> <20080522133819.GA45578@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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On Thu, 22 May 2008 06:38:19 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > You need to modify some kernel settings via /boot/loader.conf and > reboot. Here's what we use on our production RELENG_6 and RELENG_7 > boxes: > > # Increase maximum allocatable memory on a process to 2GB. > # (We don't choose 3GB (our max RAM) since that would > # exhaust all memory, and result in a kernel panic.) > # Set default memory size as 768MB. > # Maximum stack size is 256MB. > # > kern.maxdsiz="2048M" > kern.dfldsiz="768M" > kern.maxssiz="256MB" for those of us who're booting off a stripped down freebsd and are not using the 4th routines, are the above to be set before 'load /kernel' or after 'load /kernel' ? currently, loader.rc contains, --- cut here --- set console=comconsole set hw.ata.atapi_dma="0" set hw.ata.ata_dma="0" set hw.ata.wc="0" load /kernel load -t mfs_root /mfsroot boot --- cut here --- -- Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/ +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." | | done; done | +=========================================================================+
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