freebsd stable - Nov 2005 - maximum process limit

To all,

I am running squid-2.5 STABLE10 on 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD in production,
and I am trying to increase the maximum process size to be 2GB. I have
found a few references, however, they are all related to older releases
(FreeBSD 3) of FreeBSD.  As this server is already in production, I just
want to make sure that I am doing the right thing and the 2GB mem size
is being supported on the above version.

Can I have an option in the kernel 

option 	"MAXDSIZE=\(2048*1024*1024\)"

will this option alone change the default maximum process size? Or do I
have to edit the login.conf file to override the details as well as the
kernel changes?

Many thanks

Tomas

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Tomas Palfi wrote:
> To all,
> 
> I am running squid-2.5 STABLE10 on 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD in production,
> and I am trying to increase the maximum process size to be 2GB. I have
> found a few references, however, they are all related to older releases
> (FreeBSD 3) of FreeBSD.  As this server is already in production, I just
> want to make sure that I am doing the right thing and the 2GB mem size
> is being supported on the above version.
> 
> Can I have an option in the kernel 
> 
> option 	"MAXDSIZE=\(2048*1024*1024\)"
Don't know that you need to backslash the parens there.
> will this option alone change the default maximum process size? Or do I
> have to edit the login.conf file to override the details as well as the
> kernel changes?
No, recompiling (and installing) the kernel is all you need to do.

David
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overkill."