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Date:      Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:07:07 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Setting MAXDSIZ, MAXSSIZ, DFLDSIZ via kernel OIDs?
Message-ID:  <20050224200705.GA2480@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <421E2D6C.20203@mail.uni-mainz.de>
References:  <421E2D6C.20203@mail.uni-mainz.de>

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In the last episode (Feb 24), O. Hartmann said:
> Due to runtime problems of several F77 code based scientific software
> I increased possible data segment size and stack by the shown values.
> 
> options         MAXDSIZ=(2048UL*1024*1024)
> options         MAXSSIZ=(1024UL*1024*1024)
> options         DFLDSIZ=(1024UL*1024*1024)
> 
> These changes implies building a new kernel and I would like to know
> how I can set these parameters via kern.l OIDs (in
> loader.conf.local).

I'm sure it's documented somewhere but I find it easier to grep for the
word TUNABLE in the kernel source :) Found these in subr_param.c:

    TUNABLE_QUAD_FETCH("kern.maxdsiz", &maxdsiz);
    TUNABLE_QUAD_FETCH("kern.dfldsiz", &dfldsiz);
    TUNABLE_QUAD_FETCH("kern.maxssiz", &maxssiz);

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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