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From: davidg@agora.rain.com (David Greenman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD kernel bugs w/fixes
Message-ID: <1992Aug21.041821.13236@agora.uucp>
Date: 21 Aug 92 04:18:21 GMT
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Sender: davidg@agora.uucp (David Greenman)
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ws@tools.de (Wolfgang Solfrank) writes:
> While I didn't check the other fixes, at least point 4 is incorrect.

Oops, you're right.  Thank you for pointing this out.  I mis-read the manual
page for get/setrlimit and thought that the discussion about hard/soft limits
only applied to RSS. This doesn't change the fact that 6MB is not enough VM
for a large number of applications.  In light of this, I would recommend
changing the DFLDSIZ and DFLSSIZ parameters in /sys/i386/include/vmparam.h
 - even 8MB is *much* better than 6.

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David Greenman
davidg%implode@percy.rain.com