2012/5/5 Steven Chamberlain <ste...@pyro.eu.org>:
> Upstream does it that way, but I'm not sure if GNU/kFreeBSD does (I see
> no mention of ulimit in /etc?).  But if so, it would explain why this
> was reproducible on buildd's and not on the asdfasdf porter box.

ulimit is just the user interface.  This is set by PAM, see
pam_limits(8) and setrlimit(2).

> Raising DFLSIZ seems like the best way to me, as the buildd's will need
> it, and some daemons like mysql or postgres seem to want a larger data
> size anyway.

I'm on your side. I had this discussion with upstream already :-)

> Even with 'ulimit -d unlimited', kfreebsd-i386 is bounded by MAXDSIZ =
> 512 MiB whereas cmor would need ~700ish.  I suppose that and DFLDSIZ
> could be raised to 1 GiB on kfreebsd-i386 to try to fix this, but no
> higher as explained in:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598745#20

If it can be set to 1 GiB, why hasn't upstream done this?  I think it
wouldn't be a good idea to increase this limit in Debian unless
upstream does.

-- 
Robert Millan


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