Re: limits.conf/stacksize doesn't seem to work?

From: Larry Rosenman <ler_at_lerctr.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 22:26:09 UTC
On 07/15/2022 5:24 pm, Mark Johnston wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 05:21:27PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> On 07/15/2022 5:18 pm, Mark Johnston wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 05:04:18PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> >> I'm using the following kernel config:
>> >> [...]
>> >> and the following login.conf:
>> >> [...]
>> >> bacula_dir:\
>> >> 	:stacksize-max=68719476736:\
>> >> 	:stacksize-cur=68719476736:\
>> >> 	:tc=daemon:
>> >> [...]
>> >> I've updated my (ler) password entry to reference bacula_dir:
>> >> ler:<elided>:1001:1001:bacula_dir:0:0:Larry
>> >> Rosenman:/home/ler:/usr/local/bin/zsh
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> when I ssh in, the stacklimit is still:
>> >> โฏ ulimit -H -s
>> >> 2097152
>> >
>> > What is the value of the kern.maxssiz sysctl on this system?
>> >
>> >> ler in ๐ŸŒ borg in sys/amd64/conf๐Ÿ”’ on ๎‚  ler/freebsd-main-changes:main on
>> >> โ˜๏ธ  (us-east-1)
>> >> โฏ ulimit -S -s
>> >> 2097152
>> >>
>> >> ler in ๐ŸŒ borg in sys/amd64/conf๐Ÿ”’ on ๎‚  ler/freebsd-main-changes:main on
>> >> โ˜๏ธ  (us-east-1)
>> >> โฏ
>> >>
>> >> Where does this number come from?  What am I missing here?
>> >
>> > The stack limit cannot be set to an arbitrarily large number.  It will
>> > silently be clamped to maxssiz.
>> 
>> โฏ sysctl kern.maxssiz
>> kern.maxssiz: 2147483648
> 
> Then what you're seeing is expected.  The kernel is clamping the stack
> segment limit to 2GB.

I assume this is the default for MAXSSIZ?  and if I change that in the 
kernel config, it will
allow bigger?  Where is this default defined?

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