just an other Linux rant (was: Re: [geeks] fw)

David Passmore dpassmor at sneakers.org
Thu Jul 25 11:58:28 CDT 2002


On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 04:02:42PM +0000, Kris Kirby wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, David Passmore wrote:
> > I discovered the other day that FreeBSD has a hard limit of 512MB for
> > process size.
> 
> Uh, no. Maybe by default, but IIRC you can tune these to well over 2GB.
> Look at ulimit and then {MAX|DFL}SIZE in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/$KERNEL.

Right. You have to tune it manually. This does not a modern OS make. ;)

David



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