From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 15 20: 2:52 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78FA337B401 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:02:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (f78.sea2.hotmail.com [207.68.165.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26FE543F13 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:02:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank19991@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:02:49 -0800 Received: from 128.2.128.52 by sea2fd.sea2.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 04:02:49 GMT X-Originating-IP: [128.2.128.52] From: "Frank Li" To: cswiger@mac.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increase memory limit ? Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 22:02:49 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Jan 2003 04:02:49.0927 (UTC) FILETIME=[22B7ED70:01C2BD14] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks, Chuck, Which file should I put in the following ? Frank >32-bit systems implementing VM typically could increase user-mode address >space up to 2 GB, although variants on that and other things (ie, where >devices get mapped into memory) make that only an approximation. For >FreeBSD: > ># 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. MAXSSIZ is the maximum that the stack limit can be ># set to. 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)" >options MAXSSIZ="(256*1024*1024)" >options DFLDSIZ="(256*1024*1024)" > >Depending on what you're doing, you might well find using a 64-bit platform >(Alpha hardware? Solaris on SPARC?) to be more appropriate... > >-Chuck _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message