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Date:      Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:58:56 +0100
From:      David Landgren <david@landgren.net>
To:        Tomas Palfi <tpalfi@phoenixmedical.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: maximum process limit
Message-ID:  <438DBE30.6020903@landgren.net>
In-Reply-To: <119D03CDAA26274786799627855EC43D67F597@indy.enzo.phoenixmedical.co.uk>
References:  <119D03CDAA26274786799627855EC43D67F597@indy.enzo.phoenixmedical.co.uk>

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Tomas Palfi wrote:
> To all,
> 
> I am running squid-2.5 STABLE10 on 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD in production,
> and I am trying to increase the maximum process size to be 2GB. I have
> found a few references, however, they are all related to older releases
> (FreeBSD 3) of FreeBSD.  As this server is already in production, I just
> want to make sure that I am doing the right thing and the 2GB mem size
> is being supported on the above version.
> 
> Can I have an option in the kernel 
> 
> option 	"MAXDSIZE=\(2048*1024*1024\)"

Don't know that you need to backslash the parens there.

> will this option alone change the default maximum process size? Or do I
> have to edit the login.conf file to override the details as well as the
> kernel changes?

No, recompiling (and installing) the kernel is all you need to do.

David
-- 
"It's overkill of course, but you can never have too much overkill."




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