Re: Maximum memory allocation per process

2008-06-03 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Fri, 30 May 2008 16:37:00 +0200 (CEST), Oliver Fromme wrote: > Dinesh Nair wrote: > > for those of us who're booting off a stripped down freebsd and are not > > using the 4th routines, are the above to be set before 'load /kernel' > > or after 'load /kernel' ? > > It doesn't matter. The tu

Re: Maximum memory allocation per process

2008-05-30 Thread Oliver Fromme
Dinesh Nair wrote: > for those of us who're booting off a stripped down freebsd and are not > using the 4th routines, are the above to be set before 'load /kernel' or > after 'load /kernel' ? It doesn't matter. The tunables are passed to the kernel when it is booted. In fact, the standard bea

Re: Maximum memory allocation per process

2008-05-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 01:58:14PM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote: > On Thu, 22 May 2008 06:38:19 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > You need to modify some kernel settings via /boot/loader.conf and > > reboot. Here's what we use on our production RELENG_6 and RELENG_7 > > boxes: > > > > # Increase maxi

Re: Maximum memory allocation per process

2008-05-30 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Thu, 22 May 2008 06:38:19 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > You need to modify some kernel settings via /boot/loader.conf and > reboot. Here's what we use on our production RELENG_6 and RELENG_7 > boxes: > > # Increase maximum allocatable memory on a process to 2GB. > # (We don't choose 3GB (our

Re: Maximum memory allocation per process

2008-05-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:00:37PM +1000, Adrian Thearle wrote: > I have a problem with a perl script running out of memory. From my googling > I have found that perl itself does not seem to impose any memory limits, > and I have check ulimit and login.conf for any userclass limitations but > fo