Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 14:51:26 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's the maximum data deg size? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910291450310.22517-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910280838430.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > I seem to be unable to raise the maximum data seg size: > > > > data seg size (kbytes) 524288 > # Certain applications can grow to be larger than the 128M limit > # that FreeBSD initially imposes. Below are some options to > # allow that limit to grow to 256MB, and can be increased further > # with changing the parameters. MAXDSIZ is the maximum that the > # limit can be set to, and the DFLDSIZ is the default value for > # the limit. You might want to set the default lower than the > # max, and explicitly set the maximum with a shell command for processes > # that regularly exceed the limit like INND. > # > options MAXDSIZ="(256*1024*1024)" But that's 256MB? I'm hitting a 512MB limit. > options DFLDSIZ="(256*1024*1024)" > > Also make sure your login limits aren't being exhausted, type 'limit' > and check out LOGIN.CONF(5). There's only one default entry in login.conf and everything is set to unlimited. Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - Clifford Whitworth Building A.I.S., University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 5936 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key M.S.Powell@ais.salfrd.ac.uk (spell salford correctly to reply to me) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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