Increasing the datasize limit

Mel fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net
Tue Nov 4 14:12:34 PST 2008


On Tuesday 04 November 2008 22:52:00 Christopher Cowart wrote:

> According to setrlimit(2), "Only the super-user may raise the maximum
> limits," but apparently, I can't even increase the limit as the
> superuser.
>
> What am I missing?

The hardcoded default of 512Meg. Adjust in /boot/loader.conf like:
kern.defdsiz="768M"
kern.maxdsiz="768M"

See tuning(7) for more info.
-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.


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