i386/69281: init dies when MAXSSIZ, MAXDSIZ, and DFLDSIZ is set to physical memory

Lars Köller lars.koeller at uni-bielefeld.de
Fri Apr 28 13:10:28 UTC 2006


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In reply to Maxim Konovalov who wrote:
 
> Synopsis: init dies when MAXSSIZ, MAXDSIZ, and DFLDSIZ is set to physical memory
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: maxim
> State-Changed-When: Thu Apr 13 21:32:34 UTC 2006
> State-Changed-Why: 
> An expected behaviour.  i386 address space is limited by 4GB.
> Also it is not clear why do you need 2G for stack.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=69281

O.k. it's even not very nice to get no warning, or anything else.

A better behaviour was the reduction when the kernel starts up, so init 
did'nt die.

Thanks and regards

Lars

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