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Date:      Wed, 8 Jun 2005 11:02:43 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com>
Cc:        Frantisek Rysanek <Frantisek.Rysanek@post.cz>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
Subject:   Re: 12TB GEOM stripe, newfs, then fsck: cannot alloc 768053748 bytes for blockmap
Message-ID:  <20050608160243.GJ59028@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050608104357.O23064@mail.goinet.com>
References:  <42A717EB.8095.9574FF2F@localhost> <42A70833.806@dial.pipex.com> <20050608104357.O23064@mail.goinet.com>

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In the last episode (Jun 08), Tony Shadwick said:
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> >which is all my 1Gb  physical memory.  The default is a mere 512Mb. 
> >You might need users to be limited to a bit less, but I don't have
> >any of them
> 
> Whoa.....wait a sec there.
> 
> Did I just understand you right, or did you just say that the default
> amount of RAM that FreeBSD allows in the kernel is 512MB without
> throwing that switch at compile time????

You can also set it in /boot/loader.conf:  kern.maxdsiz="1024M"

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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