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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!144.212.100.12!news.mathworks.com!gatech!smash.gatech.edu!tpac.gcatt.gatech.edu!doug From: Doug Porter <doug@tpac.gcatt.gatech.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: process memory limit in kernel Date: 23 May 1997 00:57:25 GMT Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5m2q1l$egd@smash.gatech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tpac.gcatt.gatech.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970309; i386 FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41464 While running an application of ours, I was running into memory problems with a 128meg limit. I looked into the kernel makefile and found nothing, but finding an example in LINT I set it to 256meg (amt of physical memory). Which brought to mind some questions: Is there a constant for infinite/no limit? I see RLIM_INFINITY in the setrlimit man page but haven't tried it inthe kernel makefile, would it work? Are there any problems associated with setting it extremely high (like sum of physical/virtual memory, or higher)? Would it be bad to set it to MAXINT? ahhh... never had these problems on my C64 :-) cheers, doug