limitiation on memory allocation

[Dima Sorkin]

Hi.
 Great. After some tries 2.9GB was the maximum that it works
with.  Ok with me.
--RESOLVED--

 About 'dfldsiz' - I meant that I've set it in /boot/loader.conf
via 'su -' , and rebooted the machine. It didn't influenced.
(It was the first try today, may be I did something wrong, though.)
But the 'maxdsiz' works fine, and 'limits' shows the value
I've set (2.9G).

Thank you.
Dima.

On 3/12/07, Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:
> On Mar 12, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Dima Sorkin wrote:
> > Something is probably wrong.
> > kern.dfldsiz on my machine does not influence.
>
> I don't believe you can change that value after the system has
> booted-- you have to set it either in the kernel's config file, or
> in /boot/loader.conf, for this to actually take effect.
>
> > I.e. after booting I run
> > $ limits
> > and it shows me the old 500M.
> >
> > Now, a point about 'maxdsiz'= 3.0-3.5G instead of 4G - this one I
> > must check.
> > I tried 3.9G   :)
>
> Try using 3GB, agreed.
>
> Also, please note that the dftdsiz keyword affects the "hard" limit,
> not the "soft" limit...your shell might well have 500MB "soft" dsize
> limit by default, but would permit you to change that upward to the
> maximum set by the "hard" limit once you've changed that value.