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

[mattyml at daemons.net]

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, David Passmore wrote:

> 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. ;)

How do you figure? Just because it does not size on the fly, or have
a nice pretty GUI to change it? The functionality is there, you just have
to enable it manually :)