Re: 128MB limit?

[Michael Boehnisch <billy%psycho.uni-paderborn.de@localhost>]

> On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 02:58:04PM +0200, Michael Boehnisch wrote:
> > While trying to make some programs run I wrote for my university job, I
> > hit the 128MB hard limit to the maximum data amount a single process is
> > allowed to use.  From arch/amiga/include/vmparam.h:
> > 
> > #ifndef MAXDSIZ
> > #define MAXDSIZ         (128*1024*1024)         /* max data size */
> > #endif
> > 
> > Are there grave reasons not to push up this limit to, say, 1GB?
> 
> I think, what you really want is to increase USRSTACK first. Try that please.

I'll try that, but it's currently set to 0x0E000000 = 224MB.  My programs
bomb out when exceeding 128MB, not 224MB (I can see this with 'top'), so
I don't expect this to cure the problem.  Of course I migth interpret
the meaning of the constant wrongly.

Yours,

   Michael B"ohnisch