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Date:      Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:57:27 -0700 (MST)
From:      Jason Barnes <jbarnes@c3po.lpl.arizona.edu>
To:        David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Cc:        Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, <rbeyer@lpl.arizona.edu>, Wayne Barnes <wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu>
Subject:   Re: out of memory, but there's plenty left!
Message-ID:  <20020301175504.I12903-100000@c3po.lpl.arizona.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020301094759.F35679@nexus.root.com>

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> >options         MAXDSIZ="(2048*1024*1024)"
> >options         MAXSSIZ="(2048*1024*1024)"
> >options         DFLDSIZ="(2048*1024*1024)"
> >
> >and now everything works without any prolems!  Awesome!  Thank you very
> >much for your help!
>
>    That was a bit overly aggressive and will almost certainly cause you
> problems. The kernel has to organize the process virtual address space, and
> there's only about 3GB available. The above tells the kernel that you want
> 2GB each for stack and data...which is not going to work like you want.

	It seemed that the limits were 512MB before, this isn't THAT great
a change.  What kind of problems do you anticipate might crop up as a
result of requiring the kernel to allow so much space for processes?
	Thanks for your help,

				- Jason


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