exited on signal 6

[David Kelly]

On Jan 16, 2004, at 10:09 AM, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:

> On Friday 16 January 2004 16:55, David Kelly wrote:
>
>> Have seen the size over 525M. In any case for this particular 
>> newsgroup
>> pan core dumps on signal 6. An "abort"? Where is this signal coming
>> from?
>
> From malloc() most probably.
> Check the value of MAXDSIZ in your kernel config, or use limits -d to 
> find out
> that the default maximum data size for any process is 512Megs.

Sure enough, limits -d says 512M. The core dump was 480M so maybe it 
blew up on attempt to allocate a bunch more.

Didn't find any mention of these limits mentioned in
/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/ but
"find /usr/src/sys -type f -exec grep -l MAXDSIZ "{}" \;" turned up
/usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES which had more stuff that I had not seen 
including examples of how to set the default and the absolute max.

So have launched a build with limits set to 1GB and will see how that 
fares.

Thanks!

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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