Subject: Re: other mem-related issue;was: overfilling mfs partitions
To: Rudi Ludwig <rudihl@gmx.de>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/24/2004 16:15:22
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On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 01:59:13PM +0100, Rudi Ludwig wrote:
>=20
> Maybe unrelated, but then again I wouldn't post as a replay to this
> thread.
> The example of a user-program that cannot alocate the memory it wants
> but that is obviously available (hardwarewise).

[snip]

> This run was memory limited at 1550648 subintervals -> 103466916 bytes
>=20
> I am running
> $ uname -a
> NetBSD ibook 2.0_RC4 NetBSD 2.0_RC4 (IBOOK) #3: Mon Nov  1 19:46:38 CET
> 2004  rudi@ibook:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/IBOOK macppc
>=20
> but if I remember correctly, saw the same under macppc 1.6.2 , too.
> Oh and physical RAM is 384MByte on the machine, so it doesn't even get
> close to swapping.

Check your resource limits. user limits are typically set for 128 MB of=20
data, so it sounds like your program got too big and was told it couldn't=
=20
grab more memory.

Take care,

Bill

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