how to change process limits?
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
chad at shire.net
Thu Mar 10 20:41:24 PST 2005
On Mar 10, 2005, at 2:46 PM, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Mar 09), Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC said:
>> The following is aon 5.3-RELEASE-p5
>>
>> If I do a limits command I get
>>
>> # limits
>> Resource limits (current):
>> datasize 524288 kb
>> stacksize 65536 kb
>> #
>>
>> However, login.conf has (and no other classes defined)
>>
>> default:\
>> :datasize=unlimited:\
>> :stacksize=unlimited:\
>>
>> I am wondering where the datasize and stacksize get set. These have
>> limits when listed with "limits" but they do not appear to be getting
>> set through login as the login.conf has unlimitged.
>
> I believe those are extra-hard limits enforced by the kernel. You can
> raise them by adding this to /boot/loader.conf:
>
> kern.maxdsiz=2147483648
> kern.maxssiz=2147483648
Should I be able to do a sysctl to look at their current values? On my
5.3 and my 4.9 systems, there are no kern.max%siz listed at all (% = d
or s) to inspect.
thanks
Chad
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