Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:23:43 -0400 From: Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: altering "maxdsiz" or "datasize" limit ? Message-ID: <i8g50v$6pt$1@dough.gmane.org>
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Hello,
We've been satisfied FreeBSD users for several years at our hosting
company.
Recently we ran into into a problem where a long running cron script was
dying early because it is hitting FreeBSD's data segment size limit of
512 Megs, even though the machine has plenty more memory. I would like
to raise this limit, and am currently using FreeBSD 6.2.
When I researched this, I first found references to tuning "maxdsiz" in
loader.conf, then some pointed out what I found myself.... this variable
is no longer documented and perhaps no longer present in FreeBSD 6.2.
I also found that it appears you can report on it and change it with the
"limits" command:
limits -d 1g
That appears to work in the sense that the command is allowed and no
error is returned, but then if I run a follow up "limits" report again,
I see that no change is reported to have happened.
So, how I can actually increase this limit? (Both immediately and
persisting through a reboot).
Thanks!
Mark
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