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Subject: [PATCH] LINT and NOTES give false default for MAXDSIZ
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>Number: 21317
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: [PATCH] LINT and NOTES give false default for MAXDSIZ
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Sep 16 13:50:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date: Wed Jan 31 15:28:26 PST 2001
>Last-Modified: Wed Jan 31 15:32:55 PST 2001
>Originator: Philipp Mergenthaler
>Release: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
University of Karlsruhe
>Environment:
Ever since Oct. 1997
>Description:
LINT and NOTES talk about MAXDSIZ (process data size limit)
being 128MB, but it was increased to 512MB in Oct. 1997:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/include/vmparam.h#rev1.21.2.2
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
The patch is for
$FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES,v 1.817 2000/09/13 03:20:35 msmith Exp $
--- NOTES Wed Sep 13 19:06:48 2000
+++ NOTES.new Sat Sep 16 22:40:54 2000
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
#
-# Certain applications can grow to be larger than the 128M limit
+# Certain applications can grow to be larger than the 512MB limit
# that FreeBSD initially imposes. Below are some options to
-# allow that limit to grow to 256MB, and can be increased further
+# allow that limit to grow to 1024MB, and can be increased further
# with changing the parameters. MAXDSIZ is the maximum that the
# limit can be set to, and the DFLDSIZ is the default value for
@@ -66,6 +66,6 @@
# that regularly exceed the limit like INND.
#
-options MAXDSIZ="(256*1024*1024)"
-options DFLDSIZ="(256*1024*1024)"
+options MAXDSIZ="(1024*1024*1024)"
+options DFLDSIZ="(1024*1024*1024)"
#
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
From: Philipp Mergenthaler