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?
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