On 2005-01-30 08:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Guys thanks for the help but it doesn't want to work!
Actually, it works, but you are limited by the maximum allowable data
size of the VM system.
> Infact my data size setting in /etc/login.conf is unlimited by
> default.
True, but this won't work. Even if you set datasize to a large number
of bytes, i.e. 8589934592 (800 MB), you are limited by the internal
kernel limit for the maximum data size.
This is defined in /usr/src/sys/i386/include/vmparam.h as:
#define MAXDSIZ (512UL*1024*1024) /* max data size */
When the setting of login.conf is applied, the following code runs from
`src/sys/kern/kern_resource.c' (the implementation of the setrlimit(2)
syscall):
int
kern_setrlimit(td, which, limp)
struct thread *td;
u_int which;
struct rlimit *limp;
{
[...]
case RLIMIT_DATA:
if (limp->rlim_cur > maxdsiz)
limp->rlim_cur = maxdsiz;
if (limp->rlim_max > maxdsiz)
limp->rlim_max = maxdsiz;
break;
Thus, the maximum data segment size is limited by the value of
`maxdsiz'. The `maxdsiz' limit is tunable at boot time, by setting the
"kern.maxdsiz" option in your `/boot/loader.conf' file.
- Giorgos
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