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When running FreeBSD with more than 512MB of RAM, why do I get MemoryErrors when my server has tons of free physical memory?

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When running FreeBSD with more than 512MB of RAM, why do I get MemoryErrors when my server has tons of free physical memory?

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By default in FreeBSD 5.X or 4.X the kernel will limit the amount of RAM any one process can use to 512MB (older versions of FreeBSD this was lower).