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Date:      Sun, 17 Aug 1997 20:05:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [HACKERS] innd remalloc failure *after* setting MEMDSIZ
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970817200300.28679C-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970817223912.317S-100000@thelab.hub.org>

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On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> Hi...
> 
> 	After going through "the archives", and finding the suggestion of increasing
> MEMDSIZ to 256Meg, and recompiling/running the new kernel...I'm still getting
> the remalloc 'crash' with innd.
> 
> 	The kernel is 2.2.2-RELEASE, innd is 1.6b3...I have an 'unlimit' at the
> beginning of ~news/etc/rc.news...

  1.6b3 is supposed to be quite unstable...

> 	Can anyone think of something else to try, in order to fix this?
> 
> 	My machine is a P166, with 128Meg of RAM, and 430Meg of SWAP...is datasize
> the only thing that would affect this particular problem?  

  Perhaps there really is no memory left?  Perhaps innd has a memory leak?
How much swap do you have?  And how big was innd before it died?  And how
much more memory did it want?

> Marc G. Fournier                                
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
> primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 
> 
> 
> 

Tom




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