On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:46:30 -0500
Clayton Keller <inetad...@ruraltel.net> wrote:

> On 9/21/2010 1:37 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> > Hi--
> >
> > On Sep 21, 2010, at 11:09 AM, Török Edwin wrote:
> > [ ... ]
> >> If it shows ~120M your OS is buggy.
> >> Then run again with ulimit -d 2097151, and see if it reports any
> >> higher value.
> >
> > Interesting; even on FreeBSD I get:
> >
> > % ./a.out
> > failed after 15529 mmap() calls, allocated 2426 MB memory
> > [1]    1500 abort      ./a.out
> >
> > A bit of experimentation suggests that FreeBSD's mmap() pays
> > attention to ulimit on VM size, not data segment size:
> >
> > % ulimit -v 256000
> > % ./a.out
> > failed after 1591 mmap() calls, allocated 248 MB memory
> > [1]    1544 abort      ./a.out
> >
> > % uname -a
> > FreeBSD example.com 6.4-STABLE FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE #0: Mon Sep 20
> > 16:03:45 EDT 2010
> > r...@example.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386 % ulimit -Ha
> > -t: cpu time (seconds)         unlimited -f: file size
> > (blocks)         unlimited -d: data seg size (kbytes)     524288
> > -s: stack size (kbytes)        65536
> > -c: core file size (blocks)    unlimited
> > -m: resident set size (kbytes) unlimited
> > -l: locked-in-memory size (kb) unlimited
> > -u: processes                  3603
> > -n: file descriptors           7207
> > -N  9: socket buffer size (kb) unlimited
> > -v: virtual memory size (kb)   unlimited
> >
> > Regards,
> 
> Here are my findings on a 32-bit CentOS 5.5 system:
> 
> # cat /etc/redhat-release
> CentOS release 5.5 (Final)
> 
> Here are my results without any ulimit -d modifications:
> 
> # ulimit -a
> core file size          (blocks, -c) 0
> data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
> scheduling priority             (-e) 0
> file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
> pending signals                 (-i) 8192
> max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 32
> max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
> open files                      (-n) 1024
> pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 8
> POSIX message queues     (bytes, -q) 819200
> real-time priority              (-r) 0
> stack size              (kbytes, -s) 10240
> cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
> max user processes              (-u) unlimited
> virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited
> file locks                      (-x) unlimited
> 
> # ./a.out
> failed after 19648 mmap() calls, allocated 3070 MB memory
> Aborted
> 
> 
> And now with the requested ulimit -d change:
> 
> # ulimit -d 2091751
> 
> # ulimit -a
> core file size          (blocks, -c) 0
> data seg size           (kbytes, -d) 2091751
> scheduling priority             (-e) 0
> file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
> pending signals                 (-i) 8192
> max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 32
> max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
> open files                      (-n) 1024
> pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 8
> POSIX message queues     (bytes, -q) 819200
> real-time priority              (-r) 0
> stack size              (kbytes, -s) 10240
> cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
> max user processes              (-u) unlimited
> virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited
> file locks                      (-x) unlimited
> 
> # ./a.out
> failed after 19649 mmap() calls, allocated 3070 MB memory
> Aborted
> 
> So there looks to be no change on this platform.

Yes, you can ignore it.
I'll add #ifdef C_BSD to that warning for 0.96.4.

Best regards,
--Edwin
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