From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 23 0:46: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lagoon.freebsd.org.pl (lagoon.freebsd.org.pl [194.92.16.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 502AC152B8 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 00:45:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from venglin@lagoon.freebsd.org.pl) Received: (qmail 6872 invoked by uid 1001); 23 Mar 1999 08:45:38 -0000 Message-ID: <19990323084538.6871.qmail@lagoon.freebsd.org.pl> Subject: ``Can't allocate memory'' To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:45:37 +0100 (CET) From: Przemyslaw Frasunek X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE X-PGP: PGP key on WWW X-SMS: +48601383657@text.plusgsm.pl X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have strange problem with heavly loaded machine (486 DX4, 40 MB RAM, 260 MB Swap) running FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE. Average once per two weeks, one or a few procceses (usually w, uptime or top, sometimes qmail or shell) dies with ``Can't allocate memory'' message. Probably that's not a hardware problem (I've obserwed this behavior on other my servers). Can you help me with it? My kernel config: machine "i386" cpu "I486_CPU" ident AWC maxusers 128 options INET options FFS options PROCFS options "COMPAT_43" options SCSI_DELAY=15 options BOUNCE_BUFFERS options UCONSOLE options USERCONFIG options VISUAL_USERCONFIG options SYSVSHM options SYSVSEM options SYSVMSG options USER_LDT options COMPAT_LINUX options QUOTA options "NO_F00F_HACK" options "AUTO_EOI_1" options "AUTO_EOI_2" options IPFIREWALL options IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT options CHILD_MAX=512 options OPEN_MAX=512 config kernel root on wd0 controller isa0 controller pci0 controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 flags 0x80ff80ff vector wdintr disk wd0 at wdc0 drive 0 disk wd1 at wdc0 drive 1 device sc0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 1 vector scintr device npx0 at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr device ed0 at isa? port 0x280 net irq 10 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 vector siointr pseudo-device loop pseudo-device ether pseudo-device log pseudo-device pty 128 pseudo-device gzip pseudo-device bpfilter 4 pseudo-device vn 4 pseudo-device snp 3 pseudo-device ppp 2 pseudo-device tun 1 My dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-1998 FreeBSD Inc. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE #0: Thu Mar 11 17:19:54 CET 1999 venglin@lagoon.freebsd.org.pl:/usr/tmp/sys/compile/AWC CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU) real memory = 41943040 (40960K bytes) avail memory = 39047168 (38132K bytes) Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: ed1 rev 11 int a irq 11 on pci0:12:0 ed1: address 00:20:18:80:f4:a2, type NE2000 (16 bit) chip0 rev 1 on pci0:16:0 chip1 rev 1 on pci0:18:0 Probing for devices on the ISA bus: sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard sc0: MDA/hercules <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> ed0 not found at 0x280 sio0: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0 not found at 0x2f8 wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 flags 0x80ff80ff on isa wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): , 32-bit, multi-block-16 wd0: 4124MB (8446032 sectors), 14896 cyls, 9 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S npx0 on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface IP packet filtering initialized, divert disabled, default to accept, logging disabled -- * Fido: 2:480/124 ** WWW: lagoon.freebsd.org.pl/~venglin ** GSM:48-601-383657 * * Inet: venglin@lagoon.freebsd.org.pl ** PGP:D48684904685DF43EA93AFA13BE170BF * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message