Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 21:54:16 +0000 From: Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com> To: Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: altering "maxdsiz" or "datasize" limit ? Message-ID: <AANLkTimyTE5HMrqsng1Xa2VkLm1-7cckD=ui95HCsX-R@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <i8g50v$6pt$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <i8g50v$6pt$1@dough.gmane.org>
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On 10/5/10, Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > We've been satisfied FreeBSD users for several years at our hosting > company. > > Recently we ran into into a problem where a long running cron script was > dying early because it is hitting FreeBSD's data segment size limit of > 512 Megs, even though the machine has plenty more memory. I would like > to raise this limit, and am currently using FreeBSD 6.2. > > When I researched this, I first found references to tuning "maxdsiz" in > loader.conf, then some pointed out what I found myself.... this variable > is no longer documented and perhaps no longer present in FreeBSD 6.2. > > I also found that it appears you can report on it and change it with the > "limits" command: > > limits -d 1g > > That appears to work in the sense that the command is allowed and no > error is returned, but then if I run a follow up "limits" report again, > I see that no change is reported to have happened. > > So, how I can actually increase this limit? (Both immediately and > persisting through a reboot). kern.maxdsiz In /boot/loader.conf You cant increase it immediately.
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