FBSD 7.1 & kern.maxdsiz

[Drew Tomlinson]

Mel wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 November 2008 16:05:33 Mel wrote:
>   
>> On Wednesday 19 November 2008 15:43:27 Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>>     
>>> Thanks for the explanation!  As pointed out by Pieter de Goeje, the
>>> default size in FBSD 7 amd 64 is 32 GB, confirmed with the limits
>>> command above.  Thus datasize does not appear to be my problem.  I'm
>>> shooting in the dark here as Urchin software support is non-existent.
>>> Are there any other tuneables related to datasize that I might try
>>> increasing?
>>>       
>> If the soft limit is set to 'unlimitied' for the user running the program,
>> then it is not a datasize problem. You may simply be out of memory. Can you
>> track using top(1) how far the software gets and what the memory usage is
>> at around the time it crashes?
>>     
>
> But of course, if this binary runs in 32-bit mode, this applies:
> compat.ia32.maxdsiz: 536870912
>   

I'll bet this is it!!!  Thanks.  I'll check it out.

Drew

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