Re: FBSD 7.1 kern.maxdsiz
On Wednesday 19 November 2008, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I installed FBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE amd64 version on an Intel Core2Duo box with 4 GB of RAM. The main purpose of this box is to run the Urchin web analysis software from Google. The Urchin installation docs (https://secure.urchin.com/helpwiki/en/Urchin_Installation_Guide_(FreeBSD_a nd_Linux)) contain a note for FreeBSD users waring of a hard coded process datasiz limit of 500 MB and instruct on to set kern.maxdsiz=1073741824 in /boot/loader.conf. However FBSD 7.1 doesn't appear to have this sysctl. How can I do the equivalent of this in FBSD 7.1? Thanks, Drew I don't think you need to increase the datasize on 64bit FreeBSD. It seems that the default datasize is really large: 32GB You can check using the 'limits' command. -- Pieter de Goeje ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 7.1 kern.maxdsiz
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:10:55PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:34:32 -0800, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Urchin installation docs [...] contain a note for FreeBSD users waring of a hard coded process datasiz limit of 500 MB and instruct on to set kern.maxdsiz=1073741824 in /boot/loader.conf. However FBSD 7.1 doesn't appear to have this sysctl. How can I do the equivalent of this in FBSD 7.1? Exactly, it is *not* a sysctl setting. It's a loader tunable, as I learned from this list some time ago. Don't search to find it in the sysctl list, you won't find it there. :-) In FreeBSD 7 you should be able to set this setting using the file /boot/loader.conf. I think I had this setting on a FreeBSD 5 machine, I'll go and check. Thanks for your reply. I guess I expected to be able to view it via sysctl even though I understood it could only be changed with a reboot. Is there some way to view the current setting? Through sysctl. OK, what am I missing? urchin# sysctl -a | grep maxdsiz compat.ia32.maxdsiz: 536870912 compat.linux32.maxdsiz: 536870912 I do not see one named 'kern.maxdsiz'. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 7.1 kern.maxdsiz
On Wednesday 19 November 2008 15:06:54 Drew Tomlinson wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:10:55PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:34:32 -0800, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Urchin installation docs [...] contain a note for FreeBSD users waring of a hard coded process datasiz limit of 500 MB and instruct on to set kern.maxdsiz=1073741824 in /boot/loader.conf. However FBSD 7.1 doesn't appear to have this sysctl. How can I do the equivalent of this in FBSD 7.1? Exactly, it is *not* a sysctl setting. It's a loader tunable, as I learned from this list some time ago. Don't search to find it in the sysctl list, you won't find it there. :-) In FreeBSD 7 you should be able to set this setting using the file /boot/loader.conf. I think I had this setting on a FreeBSD 5 machine, I'll go and check. Thanks for your reply. I guess I expected to be able to view it via sysctl even though I understood it could only be changed with a reboot. Is there some way to view the current setting? Through sysctl. OK, what am I missing? urchin# sysctl -a | grep maxdsiz compat.ia32.maxdsiz: 536870912 compat.linux32.maxdsiz: 536870912 limits -H. Some loader tuneables aren't exported to sysctl. $ limits -Hd Resource limits (current): datasize 786432 kB $ grep maxdsiz /boot/loader.conf kern.maxdsiz=768M -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 7.1 kern.maxdsiz
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 06:06:54AM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:10:55PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:34:32 -0800, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Urchin installation docs [...] contain a note for FreeBSD users waring of a hard coded process datasiz limit of 500 MB and instruct on to set kern.maxdsiz=1073741824 in /boot/loader.conf. However FBSD 7.1 doesn't appear to have this sysctl. How can I do the equivalent of this in FBSD 7.1? Exactly, it is *not* a sysctl setting. It's a loader tunable, as I learned from this list some time ago. Don't search to find it in the sysctl list, you won't find it there. :-) In FreeBSD 7 you should be able to set this setting using the file /boot/loader.conf. I think I had this setting on a FreeBSD 5 machine, I'll go and check. Thanks for your reply. I guess I expected to be able to view it via sysctl even though I understood it could only be changed with a reboot. Is there some way to view the current setting? Through sysctl. OK, what am I missing? urchin# sysctl -a | grep maxdsiz compat.ia32.maxdsiz: 536870912 compat.linux32.maxdsiz: 536870912 I do not see one named 'kern.maxdsiz'. Actually, you're not missing anything. It's me who's missing (part of my brain). The loader tunables you want are visible via limits(1), not sysctl. Other loader tunables *are* visible through sysctl though, hence my comment. Sorry for the confusion. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 7.1 kern.maxdsiz
Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2008, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I installed FBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE amd64 version on an Intel Core2Duo box with 4 GB of RAM. The main purpose of this box is to run the Urchin web analysis software from Google. The Urchin installation docs (https://secure.urchin.com/helpwiki/en/Urchin_Installation_Guide_(FreeBSD_a nd_Linux)) contain a note for FreeBSD users waring of a hard coded process datasiz limit of 500 MB and instruct on to set kern.maxdsiz=1073741824 in /boot/loader.conf. However FBSD 7.1 doesn't appear to have this sysctl. How can I do the equivalent of this in FBSD 7.1? Thanks, Drew I don't think you need to increase the datasize on 64bit FreeBSD. It seems that the default datasize is really large: 32GB You can check using the 'limits' command. Thank you. You are correct. urchin limits -Hd Resource limits (current): datasize 33554432 kB I guess I need to look elsewhere to resolve my problem. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 7.1 kern.maxdsiz
Mel wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2008 15:06:54 Drew Tomlinson wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:10:55PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:34:32 -0800, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Urchin installation docs [...] contain a note for FreeBSD users waring of a hard coded process datasiz limit of 500 MB and instruct on to set kern.maxdsiz=1073741824 in /boot/loader.conf. However FBSD 7.1 doesn't appear to have this sysctl. How can I do the equivalent of this in FBSD 7.1? Exactly, it is *not* a sysctl setting. It's a loader tunable, as I learned from this list some time ago. Don't search to find it in the sysctl list, you won't find it there. :-) In FreeBSD 7 you should be able to set this setting using the file /boot/loader.conf. I think I had this setting on a FreeBSD 5 machine, I'll go and check. Thanks for your reply. I guess I expected to be able to view it via sysctl even though I understood it could only be changed with a reboot. Is there some way to view the current setting? Through sysctl. OK, what am I missing? urchin# sysctl -a | grep maxdsiz compat.ia32.maxdsiz: 536870912 compat.linux32.maxdsiz: 536870912 limits -H. Some loader tuneables aren't exported to sysctl. $ limits -Hd Resource limits (current): datasize 786432 kB $ grep maxdsiz /boot/loader.conf kern.maxdsiz=768M Thanks for the explanation! As pointed out by Pieter de Goeje, the default size in FBSD 7 amd 64 is 32 GB, confirmed with the limits command above. Thus datasize does not appear to be my problem. I'm shooting in the dark here as Urchin software support is non-existent. Are there any other tuneables related to datasize that I might try increasing? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 7.1 kern.maxdsiz
On Wednesday 19 November 2008 15:43:27 Drew Tomlinson wrote: Thanks for the explanation! As pointed out by Pieter de Goeje, the default size in FBSD 7 amd 64 is 32 GB, confirmed with the limits command above. Thus datasize does not appear to be my problem. I'm shooting in the dark here as Urchin software support is non-existent. Are there any other tuneables related to datasize that I might try increasing? If the soft limit is set to 'unlimitied' for the user running the program, then it is not a datasize problem. You may simply be out of memory. Can you track using top(1) how far the software gets and what the memory usage is at around the time it crashes? -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 7.1 kern.maxdsiz
On Wednesday 19 November 2008 16:05:33 Mel wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2008 15:43:27 Drew Tomlinson wrote: Thanks for the explanation! As pointed out by Pieter de Goeje, the default size in FBSD 7 amd 64 is 32 GB, confirmed with the limits command above. Thus datasize does not appear to be my problem. I'm shooting in the dark here as Urchin software support is non-existent. Are there any other tuneables related to datasize that I might try increasing? If the soft limit is set to 'unlimitied' for the user running the program, then it is not a datasize problem. You may simply be out of memory. Can you track using top(1) how far the software gets and what the memory usage is at around the time it crashes? But of course, if this binary runs in 32-bit mode, this applies: compat.ia32.maxdsiz: 536870912 -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 7.1 kern.maxdsiz
Mel wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2008 16:05:33 Mel wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2008 15:43:27 Drew Tomlinson wrote: Thanks for the explanation! As pointed out by Pieter de Goeje, the default size in FBSD 7 amd 64 is 32 GB, confirmed with the limits command above. Thus datasize does not appear to be my problem. I'm shooting in the dark here as Urchin software support is non-existent. Are there any other tuneables related to datasize that I might try increasing? If the soft limit is set to 'unlimitied' for the user running the program, then it is not a datasize problem. You may simply be out of memory. Can you track using top(1) how far the software gets and what the memory usage is at around the time it crashes? But of course, if this binary runs in 32-bit mode, this applies: compat.ia32.maxdsiz: 536870912 I'll bet this is it!!! Thanks. I'll check it out. Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 7.1 kern.maxdsiz
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 06:43:27AM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Mel wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2008 15:06:54 Drew Tomlinson wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:10:55PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:34:32 -0800, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Urchin installation docs [...] contain a note for FreeBSD users waring of a hard coded process datasiz limit of 500 MB and instruct on to set kern.maxdsiz=1073741824 in /boot/loader.conf. However FBSD 7.1 doesn't appear to have this sysctl. How can I do the equivalent of this in FBSD 7.1? Exactly, it is *not* a sysctl setting. It's a loader tunable, as I learned from this list some time ago. Don't search to find it in the sysctl list, you won't find it there. :-) In FreeBSD 7 you should be able to set this setting using the file /boot/loader.conf. I think I had this setting on a FreeBSD 5 machine, I'll go and check. Thanks for your reply. I guess I expected to be able to view it via sysctl even though I understood it could only be changed with a reboot. Is there some way to view the current setting? Through sysctl. OK, what am I missing? urchin# sysctl -a | grep maxdsiz compat.ia32.maxdsiz: 536870912 compat.linux32.maxdsiz: 536870912 limits -H. Some loader tuneables aren't exported to sysctl. $ limits -Hd Resource limits (current): datasize 786432 kB $ grep maxdsiz /boot/loader.conf kern.maxdsiz=768M Thanks for the explanation! As pointed out by Pieter de Goeje, the default size in FBSD 7 amd 64 is 32 GB, confirmed with the limits command above. Thus datasize does not appear to be my problem. I'm shooting in the dark here as Urchin software support is non-existent. Are there any other tuneables related to datasize that I might try increasing? It would help greatly if you could explain what the problem is that you're trying to track down? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 7.1 kern.maxdsiz
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 06:43:27AM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Mel wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2008 15:06:54 Drew Tomlinson wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:10:55PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:34:32 -0800, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Urchin installation docs [...] contain a note for FreeBSD users waring of a hard coded process datasiz limit of 500 MB and instruct on to set kern.maxdsiz=1073741824 in /boot/loader.conf. However FBSD 7.1 doesn't appear to have this sysctl. How can I do the equivalent of this in FBSD 7.1? Exactly, it is *not* a sysctl setting. It's a loader tunable, as I learned from this list some time ago. Don't search to find it in the sysctl list, you won't find it there. :-) In FreeBSD 7 you should be able to set this setting using the file /boot/loader.conf. I think I had this setting on a FreeBSD 5 machine, I'll go and check. Thanks for your reply. I guess I expected to be able to view it via sysctl even though I understood it could only be changed with a reboot. Is there some way to view the current setting? Through sysctl. OK, what am I missing? urchin# sysctl -a | grep maxdsiz compat.ia32.maxdsiz: 536870912 compat.linux32.maxdsiz: 536870912 limits -H. Some loader tuneables aren't exported to sysctl. $ limits -Hd Resource limits (current): datasize 786432 kB $ grep maxdsiz /boot/loader.conf kern.maxdsiz=768M Thanks for the explanation! As pointed out by Pieter de Goeje, the default size in FBSD 7 amd 64 is 32 GB, confirmed with the limits command above. Thus datasize does not appear to be my problem. I'm shooting in the dark here as Urchin software support is non-existent. Are there any other tuneables related to datasize that I might try increasing? It would help greatly if you could explain what the problem is that you're trying to track down? I understand I'm asking for magic. I do not know the problem. My employer's Internet group purchased a software called Urchin which appears to be a standalone version of Google Analytics for web site reporting. I have been tasked with installing this software. Supported OSs are Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows. I chose FreeBSD 7 as I've been using it for my home network for years. However I will be the first to admit that I do not really understand the internals. I am just grateful that others that do understand have provided and support this OS for me. :) The Urchin software reports a failed to allocate memory error. The sparse Urchin documentation noted above says this error is a known issue with FreeBSD and that kern.maxdsiz needs to be set at 1 GB to avoid. Because of help from the list, I learned that the default size in 64 bit FBSD is 32 GB. Thus I didn't think this is my issue and was seeking any ideas of what else to look at that might be similar. Mel gave me a great nudge that if Urchin is a 32 bit binary (which it is), then it is limited by compat.ia32.maxdsiz which is 500 MB by default. I have set this to 1GB and so far, there have not been any further memory errors. Many thanks to everyone for his/her help! Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 7.1 kern.maxdsiz
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 07:54:00AM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 06:43:27AM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Mel wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2008 15:06:54 Drew Tomlinson wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:10:55PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:34:32 -0800, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Urchin installation docs [...] contain a note for FreeBSD users waring of a hard coded process datasiz limit of 500 MB and instruct on to set kern.maxdsiz=1073741824 in /boot/loader.conf. However FBSD 7.1 doesn't appear to have this sysctl. How can I do the equivalent of this in FBSD 7.1? Exactly, it is *not* a sysctl setting. It's a loader tunable, as I learned from this list some time ago. Don't search to find it in the sysctl list, you won't find it there. :-) In FreeBSD 7 you should be able to set this setting using the file /boot/loader.conf. I think I had this setting on a FreeBSD 5 machine, I'll go and check. Thanks for your reply. I guess I expected to be able to view it via sysctl even though I understood it could only be changed with a reboot. Is there some way to view the current setting? Through sysctl. OK, what am I missing? urchin# sysctl -a | grep maxdsiz compat.ia32.maxdsiz: 536870912 compat.linux32.maxdsiz: 536870912 limits -H. Some loader tuneables aren't exported to sysctl. $ limits -Hd Resource limits (current): datasize 786432 kB $ grep maxdsiz /boot/loader.conf kern.maxdsiz=768M Thanks for the explanation! As pointed out by Pieter de Goeje, the default size in FBSD 7 amd 64 is 32 GB, confirmed with the limits command above. Thus datasize does not appear to be my problem. I'm shooting in the dark here as Urchin software support is non-existent. Are there any other tuneables related to datasize that I might try increasing? It would help greatly if you could explain what the problem is that you're trying to track down? I understand I'm asking for magic. I do not know the problem. My employer's Internet group purchased a software called Urchin which appears to be a standalone version of Google Analytics for web site reporting. I have been tasked with installing this software. Supported OSs are Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows. I chose FreeBSD 7 as I've been using it for my home network for years. However I will be the first to admit that I do not really understand the internals. I am just grateful that others that do understand have provided and support this OS for me. :) The Urchin software reports a failed to allocate memory error. The sparse Urchin documentation noted above says this error is a known issue with FreeBSD and that kern.maxdsiz needs to be set at 1 GB to avoid. Because of help from the list, I learned that the default size in 64 bit FBSD is 32 GB. Thus I didn't think this is my issue and was seeking any ideas of what else to look at that might be similar. Mel gave me a great nudge that if Urchin is a 32 bit binary (which it is), then it is limited by compat.ia32.maxdsiz which is 500 MB by default. I have set this to 1GB and so far, there have not been any further memory errors. I believe Mel's recommendation is spot on. I had no idea this was a 32-bit binary being run on a 64-bit version of FreeBSD. So yes, the tunable he gave you should fix the problem. :-) Cheers! -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FBSD 7.1 kern.maxdsiz
I installed FBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE amd64 version on an Intel Core2Duo box with 4 GB of RAM. The main purpose of this box is to run the Urchin web analysis software from Google. The Urchin installation docs (https://secure.urchin.com/helpwiki/en/Urchin_Installation_Guide_(FreeBSD_and_Linux)) contain a note for FreeBSD users waring of a hard coded process datasiz limit of 500 MB and instruct on to set kern.maxdsiz=1073741824 in /boot/loader.conf. However FBSD 7.1 doesn't appear to have this sysctl. How can I do the equivalent of this in FBSD 7.1? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 7.1 kern.maxdsiz
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:34:32 -0800, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Urchin installation docs [...] contain a note for FreeBSD users waring of a hard coded process datasiz limit of 500 MB and instruct on to set kern.maxdsiz=1073741824 in /boot/loader.conf. However FBSD 7.1 doesn't appear to have this sysctl. How can I do the equivalent of this in FBSD 7.1? Exactly, it is *not* a sysctl setting. It's a loader tunable, as I learned from this list some time ago. Don't search to find it in the sysctl list, you won't find it there. :-) In FreeBSD 7 you should be able to set this setting using the file /boot/loader.conf. I think I had this setting on a FreeBSD 5 machine, I'll go and check. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 7.1 kern.maxdsiz
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:34:32 -0800, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Urchin installation docs [...] contain a note for FreeBSD users waring of a hard coded process datasiz limit of 500 MB and instruct on to set kern.maxdsiz=1073741824 in /boot/loader.conf. However FBSD 7.1 doesn't appear to have this sysctl. How can I do the equivalent of this in FBSD 7.1? Exactly, it is *not* a sysctl setting. It's a loader tunable, as I learned from this list some time ago. Don't search to find it in the sysctl list, you won't find it there. :-) In FreeBSD 7 you should be able to set this setting using the file /boot/loader.conf. I think I had this setting on a FreeBSD 5 machine, I'll go and check. Thanks for your reply. I guess I expected to be able to view it via sysctl even though I understood it could only be changed with a reboot. Is there some way to view the current setting? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 7.1 kern.maxdsiz
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:10:55PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:34:32 -0800, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Urchin installation docs [...] contain a note for FreeBSD users waring of a hard coded process datasiz limit of 500 MB and instruct on to set kern.maxdsiz=1073741824 in /boot/loader.conf. However FBSD 7.1 doesn't appear to have this sysctl. How can I do the equivalent of this in FBSD 7.1? Exactly, it is *not* a sysctl setting. It's a loader tunable, as I learned from this list some time ago. Don't search to find it in the sysctl list, you won't find it there. :-) In FreeBSD 7 you should be able to set this setting using the file /boot/loader.conf. I think I had this setting on a FreeBSD 5 machine, I'll go and check. Thanks for your reply. I guess I expected to be able to view it via sysctl even though I understood it could only be changed with a reboot. Is there some way to view the current setting? Through sysctl. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
