FBSD 7.1 & kern.maxdsiz

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:10:55PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> Polytropon wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:34:32 -0800, Drew Tomlinson <drew at 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?

Through sysctl.

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