Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:59:21 -0700 From: Chris Peterson <chris@lameness.info> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Chris Peterson <chris@lameness.info> Subject: Re: kern.maxdsiz on amd63 with i386 binaries Message-ID: <135DB3FD-8241-495F-A977-849F8CB47638@lamness.info> In-Reply-To: <49029AAD.1020700@freebsd.org> References: <9754CE37-FAAA-4E52-B41C-8DFFF7DC30C0@lamness.info> <49029AAD.1020700@freebsd.org>
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Thanks Joe, that did it. Out of curiosity, I don't see any of the compat tree in /boot/defaults/ loader.conf, is there any place this is documented besides kernel sources? If not then I guess I should give something back to the community and change that :) Regards, Chris Peterson On Oct 24, 2008, at 9:03 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > Chris Peterson wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've got a handful of i386 boxes, and a handful of amd64 boxes >> running a >> 32-bit application, the reasons for this exact configuration >> mystify me >> as well as the deployment predates my time in the environment. Now >> that >> the dataset the application is loading is rapidly approaching 512MB >> we're starting to tweak kern.maxdsiz and kern.dfldsiz to 1GB. >> >> The i386 boxes are doing great, but we hit an issue with the amd64 >> machines in that 64bit apps seem to work fine, but the 32bit apps >> running on the amd64 machines fail to be able to use more than the >> i386 >> default of 512MB no matter what we set kern.maxdsiz to. I've also >> tried >> compiling it into the kernel, which results in the same issue. >> >> I tried starting the app with "limits -d 1090519040", and it seems to >> fail as well. Limits does show the proper value for datasize of >> 1064960 kB. >> >> We're locked into 32-bit binaries for this app at the moment thanks >> to >> some uh... interesting libraries it uses, so the usual option of >> recompile isn't available. I'd like to avoid traveling from San >> Jose to >> Seattle, then Virginia, then Munich to reinstall the amd64 machines >> with >> i386 machines if at all possible. >> >> Uh... help? > > Have you tried setting compat.ia32.maxdsiz? I believe this will do > what > you want. > > Joe > > -- > Joe Marcus Clarke > FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org > FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome > http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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