Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:40:44 +0100 From: Mark Ruggles <mark.ruggles@lcn.com> To: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Running Program memory limit Message-ID: <4320071C.3080601@lcn.com> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20050908022538.058ac010@cobalt.antimatter.net> References: <43200167.7050209@lcn.com> <6.2.3.4.2.20050908022538.058ac010@cobalt.antimatter.net>
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The system is a Dell Xps gen 2 Laptop with 2 gig RAM 998meg free in swap, output of df -h: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s3a 248M 77M 151M 34% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/ad0s3e 496M 4.5M 452M 1% /tmp /dev/ad0s3f 19G 10G 6.9G 60% /usr /dev/ad0s3d 496M 50M 406M 11% /var the interesting thing is that the same thing happens when using mozilla thunderbird to do the same thing... Glenn Dawson wrote: > At 02:16 AM 9/8/2005, Mark Ruggles wrote: > >> Hi Guys, >> >> I'm using the pan newsreader in FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2 #0 build from ports. >> Pan operates normally on small newsgroups with not to many articles, >> however if i try to load a group with 1000000+ articles (my servers >> have good retention) Pan seems to bomb out completely whilst loading >> the groups articles, giving no errors or warnings. >> >> Memory usage for the process is high upto ~500meg RAM at any one time >> when loading the group. >> >> Has the Kernel reached a theoretical limit for the size of a process >> and killed it off? >> >> If so can this behaviour be changed at all? > > > How much RAM is in your system, and how big is your swap file? > > If you have RAM and swap to back it up, a user process has 3GB of > address space available to it. You can alter that by changing KVA_PAGES > in your kernel config, but it doesn't sound like that's what your > problem is. > > -Glenn > > >> thanks >> >> Mark >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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