From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 05:41:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F66E1065673 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:41:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DBC48FC0A for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:41:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.12]) by QMTA08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id gtTZ1a0090Fqzac58tgXnV; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:40:31 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id gthB1a0012P6wsM3UthB7L; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:41:12 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=Xt93aXcBJGhr7YeLSpIA:9 a=Rtb1RXT7xfnWwsj-wh7Mn1oTfi0A:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=Sllw8v0m4fwA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0E16D33C37; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:41:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:41:11 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Drew Tomlinson Message-ID: <20081119054111.GB77425@icarus.home.lan> References: <49235108.2030907@mykitchentable.net> <20081119010109.5eff6215.freebsd@edvax.de> <4923598F.2080601@mykitchentable.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4923598F.2080601@mykitchentable.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: Polytropon , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FBSD 7.1 & kern.maxdsiz X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:41:14 -0000 On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:10:55PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > Polytropon wrote: >> On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:34:32 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: >> >>> The Urchin installation docs [...] >>> contain a note for FreeBSD users waring of a "hard coded process >>> datasiz limit of 500 MB" and instruct on to set >>> "kern.maxdsiz="1073741824"" in /boot/loader.conf. However FBSD 7.1 >>> doesn't appear to have this sysctl. How can I do the equivalent of >>> this in FBSD 7.1? >>> >> >> Exactly, it is *not* a sysctl setting. It's a loader tunable, as >> I learned from this list some time ago. Don't search to find >> it in the sysctl list, you won't find it there. :-) >> >> In FreeBSD 7 you should be able to set this setting using >> the file /boot/loader.conf. I think I had this setting on a >> FreeBSD 5 machine, I'll go and check. >> > > Thanks for your reply. I guess I expected to be able to view it via > sysctl even though I understood it could only be changed with a reboot. > Is there some way to view the current setting? Through sysctl. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |