From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 5 04:50:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA00462 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 04:50:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from NS.Contrib.Com (NS.Contrib.Com [194.77.12.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA00455 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 04:50:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from src@localhost) by NS.Contrib.Com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA11668; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 13:50:01 +0100 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 13:50:01 +0100 From: Heiko Blume Message-Id: <199611051250.NAA11668@NS.Contrib.Com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: innd can't malloc - why? Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk hello maybe i'm a little ignorant, but my innd lately vanishes very often our of the blue (i.e. not during expire) telling me Nov 5 07:52:15 news innd: ME cant remalloc 8392960 bytes Cannot allocate memory i recently upgraded the machine to 128MB RAM (yes, i have the 'options "MAXMEM=131072"' in the kernel) and 300MB swap, which should be enough! for the life of me i can't see why it should fall short of memory. here's some data: {1027} news@news /var/log/news : uname -a FreeBSD news 2.1-STABLE FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE #0: Wed Oct 30 12:58:25 MET 1996 root@news:/usr/src/sys/compile/CONTRIB i386 {1025} news@news /var/log/news : swapinfo Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/sd0s1b 131072 0 131008 0% Interleaved /dev/sd5b 204800 0 204736 0% Interleaved Total 335744 0 335744 0% before the upgrade swap was always used to some degree, i am a little suspicious to see 0% here all the time,... load averages: 0.61, 0.28, 0.25 13:29:25 63 processes: 2 running, 60 sleeping, 1 zombie Cpu states: 1.2% user, 41.6% nice, 54.5% system, 2.7% interrupt, 0.0% idle Memory: 84M Act 2280K Inact 12M Wired 272K Free PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 7410 news 88 4 2128K 2384K run 0:19 42.80% 42.57% in.nnrpd 23038 news -6 4 65M 47M sleep 11:15 6.90% 6.90% innd 7545 news 28 0 468K 892K run 0:00 1.04% 0.34% top 7393 news 2 0 688K 964K sleep 0:00 0.19% 0.19% innxmit 1968 news 2 0 688K 1052K sleep 0:16 0.08% 0.08% innxmit 27400 root 2 0 504K 940K sleep 0:19 0.00% 0.00% top 4706 root 18 0 1052K 1456K sleep 0:03 0.00% 0.00% tcsh 18959 src 18 0 1004K 1400K sleep 0:01 0.00% 0.00% tcsh 22932 news 18 0 976K 1368K sleep 0:01 0.00% 0.00% tcsh 5013 news 18 0 980K 1364K sleep 0:01 0.00% 0.00% tcsh 4986 root 18 0 772K 1168K sleep 0:01 0.00% 0.00% tcsh 4862 root 18 0 668K 1056K sleep 0:01 0.00% 0.00% tcsh 26980 root 18 0 676K 1040K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% tcsh 26979 root 18 0 460K 304K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% csh 107 root 18 0 280K 260K sleep 0:11 0.00% 0.00% cron help! hb