--- Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doug White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It's limited to MAXDSIZ (max data size). > > Not quite - the size of the data segment is limited to the value of > 'limits -d', which starts out at DFLDSIZ and cannot be larger than > MAXDSIZ. Likewise, the size of the stack is limited to the value of > 'limits -s', which cannot be larger that MAXSSIZ. I don't think > there's a limit on text size (other than "total address space minus > kernel address space"), but a very large text segment will obviously > limit the size of the data and stack segments. > > > You can raise this up to 2GB or > > so, but you will eventually hit the KVM boundary. I don't recall what the > > KVM limit is right now, I thought it was 2GB but I think it was reduced > > recently ... > > The kernel address space used to be 256 MB in 3.x, but was bumped to 1 > GB before 4.0-RELEASE. See FAQ list entry 17.15.
Which FAQ is that? The online FAQ at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html Only has "funnies" for section 17, and doesn't go up to 17.15. Adam. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
