Re: Maximum memory allocation per process

2008-06-03 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Fri, 30 May 2008 16:37:00 +0200 (CEST), Oliver Fromme wrote: Dinesh Nair wrote: for those of us who're booting off a stripped down freebsd and are not using the 4th routines, are the above to be set before 'load /kernel' or after 'load /kernel' ? It doesn't matter. The tunables

Re: Maximum memory allocation per process

2008-05-30 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Thu, 22 May 2008 06:38:19 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: You need to modify some kernel settings via /boot/loader.conf and reboot. Here's what we use on our production RELENG_6 and RELENG_7 boxes: # Increase maximum allocatable memory on a process to 2GB. # (We don't choose 3GB (our max

Re: Maximum memory allocation per process

2008-05-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 01:58:14PM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote: On Thu, 22 May 2008 06:38:19 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: You need to modify some kernel settings via /boot/loader.conf and reboot. Here's what we use on our production RELENG_6 and RELENG_7 boxes: # Increase maximum

Re: Maximum memory allocation per process

2008-05-30 Thread Oliver Fromme
Dinesh Nair wrote: for those of us who're booting off a stripped down freebsd and are not using the 4th routines, are the above to be set before 'load /kernel' or after 'load /kernel' ? It doesn't matter. The tunables are passed to the kernel when it is booted. In fact, the standard

Maximum memory allocation per process

2008-05-22 Thread Adrian Thearle
Hi Guys I have a problem with a perl script running out of memory. From my googling I have found that perl itself does not seem to impose any memory limits, and I have check ulimit and login.conf for any userclass limitations but found nothing that seems to be limiting my memory. I have

Re: Maximum memory allocation per process

2008-05-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:00:37PM +1000, Adrian Thearle wrote: I have a problem with a perl script running out of memory. From my googling I have found that perl itself does not seem to impose any memory limits, and I have check ulimit and login.conf for any userclass limitations but found