how to change process limits?

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

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