Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/i386/include

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> In article <20050920231116.GI26965%snowdrop.l8s.co.uk@localhost>,
> David Laight  <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 04:38:58PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > > Module Name:    src
> > > Committed By:   christos
> > > Date:           Tue Sep 20 16:38:58 UTC 2005
> > >
> > > Modified Files:
> > >         src/sys/arch/i386/include: vmparam.h
> > >
> > > Log Message:
> > > - Bump default data size from 128M to 256M, allows the java interpreter to
> > >   start up without unlimit.
> > > - Bump max data size from 2G to 3G. The actual space we are allowed to
> > allocate
> > >   is somewhere between 2G and 3G, so trying to allocate above that will fail.
> > > - Bump max stack size from 32M to 64M.
> >
> > Are those the 'soft' limits?
> > Should we be looking at setting the 'hard' limits to sane values
> > (so that a non-priviledged user can't use all the kernel resources)
>
> 1 and 3 are soft, 2 is hard.

        What are the chances of getting this into 3.0 (I'd also say 2.1,
        but my guess is that ship has sailed :)
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