Re: memory limits

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06.09.2004, at 00:09, Adrian Nida wrote:
> I'm running a very memory intensive php 5.0 script through apache2 on 
> a recent
> DragonFly build (Sept 1).  My problem is that I'm running into some OS 
> limit or
> something.  I'm assuming this because I have 2G physical RAM and 4G 
> swap, but
> apache runs out of memory waaaay before then (maybe 500MB) even though 
> top
> reports 1400M Free.
>
> I've tried setting datasize to 'infinity' using `limits`, but that 
> didn't stick
> (I ran it again, and it still said datasize was limited to 524288).  I 
> also
> tried to adjust kern.ipc.shmmax to 6GB using `sysctl`, but it didn't 
> make a
> difference.  FYI, that variable's upper limit is 2147483647.
>
> What can I do to give apache2 access to all the addressable memory on 
> this
> system?

Do we have PAE? If not, can a 32 bit processor even use 2+4GB? I recall 
that some year(s) ago, people were adviced not to use more than 4GB 
totall memory on FreeBSD. Could be wrong, though.

cheers
  simon

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