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Date:      Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:05:46 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        scuba@centroin.com.br
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mkisofs: out of memory
Message-ID:  <44hczru1fp.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060830161613.N91154@trex.centroin.com.br> (scuba@centroin.com.br's message of "Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:25:54 -0300 (BRT)")
References:  <20060830161613.N91154@trex.centroin.com.br>

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scuba@centroin.com.br writes:

> Hi all,
>
> 	I'm trying to write a DVD-RW with a directory created with
> rsnapshot, but there are some problem with mkisofs: "Not enough
> memory"
>
> # mkisofs -R -J -o /data/rsnap.iso /data/.snapshots
> mkisofs: Cannot allocate memory. Not enough memory
>
> 	The machine has more then 350MB of free memory and 1GB of
> swap, but mkisofs exausts memory and start to use swap when the
> problem happen.
> 	The volume I'm trying to copy has 4 GB.
> 	The same problem happen with growisofs, and K3b front end.
>
> 	System FreeBSD 5.4.
> 	Any clue?

limits(1)?



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