kern.maxdsiz big memory/tuning questions

2005-12-13 Thread Michael Dexter
Hello, I'm trying to RTFM but the M does not appear to exist. I am dealing with processes over 512MB in size on 6.0 on x86 and am using these loader.conf tunables as suggested by MySQL and other documentation: kern.maxdsiz=1073741824 # 1GB kern.dfldsiz=1073741824 # 1GB

Re: kern.maxdsiz big memory/tuning questions

2005-12-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Michael Dexter wrote: [ ... ] However, I am not clear if: 1. It is permitted to use M and G notation (kern.maxsiz=1G)? - some say yes, some say no and I would prefer not risk the system not booting. Using 1G or some number followed by M is working for me in 5.x and 6.0. 2. Which tunables