Process size.

Sergey Chumakov
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:30:13 -0000

Hello,

FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p3 #3

$top
...
  PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
36032 root     2838  44    0  1917M  1493M ucond  0 406:39  3.03% CGServer
...

$cat /boot/loader.conf.local
...
kern.maxdsiz="1073741824"
kern.maxssiz="134217728"
kern.dfldsiz="1073741824"

$limits
Resource limits (current):
...
  datasize          1048576 kB
  stacksize          131072 kB

How and why is it possible for process to grow up to 1493M and even
more? I suppose, it will be able to eat all available system memory (was
killed).

Thank you for answers.

--
Sincerely,

Sergey Chumakov