Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:10:55 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FBSD 7.1 & kern.maxdsiz Message-ID: <4923598F.2080601@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <20081119010109.5eff6215.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <49235108.2030907@mykitchentable.net> <20081119010109.5eff6215.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:34:32 -0800, Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> 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? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
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