From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Feb 4 00:51:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA02404 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 00:51:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA02396 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 00:51:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA27648; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 09:51:20 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id JAA27515; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 09:41:32 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 09:41:32 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: Shimon@i-Connect.Net (Simon Shapiro) Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Subject: Re: bin/2633: fsck -p in /etc/rc fails with cannot alloc nnnn by References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Simon Shapiro on Feb 3, 1997 23:32:26 -0800 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Simon Shapiro wrote: > > On another chance, does fsck simply run out of VM limits? See > > ulimit... > > Ulimit is ``unlimited'', unless it does something different (and silly?) > at boot time. The VM limits cannot be `unlimited'. :-) # ulimit -a cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited file size (512-blocks, -f) unlimited data seg size (kbytes, -d) 65536 stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 core file size (512-blocks, -c) unlimited max memory size (kbytes, -m) 29852 locked memory (kbytes, -l) 9952 max user processes (-u) 100 open files (-n) 680 # ulimit -d unlimited # ulimit -s unlimited # ulimit -a cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited file size (512-blocks, -f) unlimited data seg size (kbytes, -d) 131072 stack size (kbytes, -s) 65536 core file size (512-blocks, -c) unlimited max memory size (kbytes, -m) 29852 locked memory (kbytes, -l) 9952 max user processes (-u) 100 open files (-n) 680 As you can see, the default hard limits are 128 MB for data, and 64 MB for stack. > As this one is a basic, boot time, plain vanilla issue, I am sort of > ``playing dumb'' here. As I am still new here, am I expected to fix that > (since I spoke first :-) or there is an ``official maintainer'' for this > piece? Not that i know of... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)