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Date:      Thu, 6 Jun 2002 09:39:29 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: allocating memory
Message-ID:  <20020606143929.GC43707@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <15615.25376.119686.377821@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
References:  <3CFEEB99.AEDC5DB9@math.missouri.edu> <15615.25376.119686.377821@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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In the last episode (Jun 06), Andrew Gallatin said:
> Stephen Montgomery-Smith writes:
>  > I have access to a rather large computer (3GB of RAM) and I would
>  > like to write a program to access most of this memory.  I find
>  > that I am unable to malloc more than about 0.5 GB of memory, even
>  > if I do it in
> 
> Check your per-process limits.
> 
> Also, rebuild your kernel after increasing MAXDSIZ: (from LINT)

You don't even need to rebuild the kernel.  Just add
kern.maxdsiz=1073741824 to /etc/loader.conf and reboot (to raise the
limit to 1gb, for example)

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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