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From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: increasing maximum process size on 4.2bsd
Message-ID: <1107@ulysses.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 11:39:49 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 13 11:39:49 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 01:39:25 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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One of our users would like to run some 60M processes (yes, I mean 60 meg).
There's a fairly obvious parameter in vmparam.h to control maximum process
size; are there any ill effects to changing it?  For example, would all
other processes get huge page tables as a result, with consequent impact
on system performance?  Is there a limit to how high this value can be
set?  I'm not concerned about runaway processes; I'm perfectly willing to
stick a setrlimit call into login.c to keep the soft limit at 6M or so.

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