SUMMARY: Increase data area

From: Oscar Goosens (goos@xs4all.nl)
Date: Fri Sep 03 1999 - 03:05:38 CDT


Thanks to Casper Dik and Kevin Sheehan.

Both pointed out that 3GB data area is already close to the limit you can
have under Solaris 2.6 (4 GB). Should have realised this, our applications
with their huge memory needs are probably in need of Solaris 2.7 as
suggested by Kevin.

Nevertheless, adding entry "ulimit -d unlimited" in "/etc/profile" gives the
desired
"unlimited" output when typing "ulimit -d" at shell prompt.

Regards

Regards
Oscar Goosens
Unix System Administrator
Amdahl Netherlands

Original question:

>Sun-managers,
>
>Can anybody tell me what is the /etc/system parameter for setting the
>data area size? Currently the users can't set it higher than 3000000K
>using "ulimit -d". They need more for a batch job that should run in a few
>hours time.
>I have not been able to get the answer from Sunsolve, Sun-service
>or the Sun-Managers mailing list search engine.
>
>I'd like to make it unlimited.
>System: E10000, 8CPU's, 8 GB RAM, Solaris 2.6
>
>
>Regards
>Oscar Goosens
>Unix System Administrator
>Amdahl Netherlands
>



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