From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 13 10:08:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA02880 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 10:08:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA02865 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 10:08:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from Mailbox.mcs.com (Mailbox.mcs.com [192.160.127.87]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id MAA23621 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 12:08:51 -0600 (CST) Received: from Jupiter.Mcs.Net (karl@Jupiter.mcs.net [192.160.127.88]) by Mailbox.mcs.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id MAA18449 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 12:08:50 -0600 (CST) Received: (from karl@localhost) by Jupiter.Mcs.Net (8.8.2/8.8.2) id MAA15951 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 12:08:49 -0600 (CST) From: Karl Denninger Message-Id: <199611131808.MAA15951@Jupiter.Mcs.Net> Subject: Setting maximum RAM consumption by a process To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 12:08:48 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi folks, I know how to do this for BSDI (maximum segment size) but not for FreeBSD, and the same parameters don't appear to work. Basically, our news server is now reaching a WSS of 100MB+, and we need to increase it (because we're getting malloc failures and death of the process :-) The system has lots of RAM, so that's not a problem. Anyone got the magic words for the config file? -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity http://www.mcs.net/~karl | T1's from $600 monthly to FULL DS-3 Service | 32 Analog Prefixes, 13 ISDN, Web servers $75/mo Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| Email to "info@mcs.net" WWW: http://www.mcs.net/ Fax: [+1 312 248-9865] | 2 FULL DS-3 Internet links; 400Mbps B/W Internal