Document MAXDSIZ and DFLDSIZ. This is a 2.2 candidate change.

2 files changed, 28 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/sys/i386/conf/LINT b/sys/i386/conf/LINT
index c6bcf6c..0b0a64a 100644
--- a/sys/i386/conf/LINT
+++ b/sys/i386/conf/LINT
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # LINT -- config file for checking all the sources, tries to pull in
 #	as much of the source tree as it can.
 #
-#	$Id: LINT,v 1.298 1996/12/18 11:43:33 se Exp $
+#	$Id: LINT,v 1.299 1996/12/22 10:38:41 phk Exp $
 #
 # NB: You probably don't want to try running a kernel built from this
 # file.  Instead, you should start from GENERIC, and add options from
@@ -48,6 +48,19 @@ options		CHILD_MAX=128
 options		OPEN_MAX=128
 
 #
+# Certain applications can grow to be larger than the 128M limit
+# that FreeBSD initially imposes.  Below are some options to
+# allow that limit to grow to 256MB, and can be increased further
+# with changing the parameters.  MAXDSIZ is the maximum that the
+# limit can be set to, and the DFLDSIZ is the default value for
+# the limit.  You might want to set the default lower than the
+# max, and explicitly set the maximum with a shell command for processes
+# that regularly exceed the limit like INND.
+#
+options		"MAXDSIZ='(256*1024*1024)'"
+options		"DFLDSIZ='(256*1024*1024)'"
+
+#
 # Under some circumstances it is useful to have an extra number of
 # vnode data structures allocated at boot time.  In particular,
 # usenet news servers can benefit if there are enough vnodes to
diff --git a/sys/i386/conf/NOTES b/sys/i386/conf/NOTES
index c6bcf6c..0b0a64a 100644
--- a/sys/i386/conf/NOTES
+++ b/sys/i386/conf/NOTES
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # LINT -- config file for checking all the sources, tries to pull in
 #	as much of the source tree as it can.
 #
-#	$Id: LINT,v 1.298 1996/12/18 11:43:33 se Exp $
+#	$Id: LINT,v 1.299 1996/12/22 10:38:41 phk Exp $
 #
 # NB: You probably don't want to try running a kernel built from this
 # file.  Instead, you should start from GENERIC, and add options from
@@ -48,6 +48,19 @@ options		CHILD_MAX=128
 options		OPEN_MAX=128
 
 #
+# Certain applications can grow to be larger than the 128M limit
+# that FreeBSD initially imposes.  Below are some options to
+# allow that limit to grow to 256MB, and can be increased further
+# with changing the parameters.  MAXDSIZ is the maximum that the
+# limit can be set to, and the DFLDSIZ is the default value for
+# the limit.  You might want to set the default lower than the
+# max, and explicitly set the maximum with a shell command for processes
+# that regularly exceed the limit like INND.
+#
+options		"MAXDSIZ='(256*1024*1024)'"
+options		"DFLDSIZ='(256*1024*1024)'"
+
+#
 # Under some circumstances it is useful to have an extra number of
 # vnode data structures allocated at boot time.  In particular,
 # usenet news servers can benefit if there are enough vnodes to