Subject: Re: fsck & ccd
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@cs.cmu.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/27/1997 12:05:47
> On Thu, 27 Feb 1997 09:34:25 +0200 (EET) 
>  Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi> wrote:
> 
>  > # fsck /dev/ccd0d
>  > ** /dev/rccd0d
>  > cannot alloc 7948802 bytes for lncntp
>  > 
>  > (This is a nice 16 GB ccd disk... :-)
> 
> Eek!  Well, you're hitting the default rlimits.  Try unlimiting the
> data size ...

This is the most convincing argument i've heard thus far for the fact
that the i386 default limits are too low...  If you can't even fsck a
'reasonable size' disk/partition with the default limits, there's a
problem.



cgd