Date: 08 Jan 1999 13:34:32 -0500 From: Matt Curtin <cmcurtin@interhack.net> To: Charlie Sorsby <crs@hgo.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "memory exhausted" error???? Message-ID: <xlxemp5fwav.fsf@gold.cis.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: Charlie Sorsby's message of "Fri, 8 Jan 1999 09:07:38 -0500 (EST)" References: <199901081407.JAA01644@quail.hgo.net>
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Charlie Sorsby <crs@hgo.net> writes: > PC% sudo diff -r /var.226 /home.215 > diff: memory exhausted This means that your memory is tired and wants to sleep(3). :-) Actually, you probably really are running out of memory. Note: > have 48MB of memory and, I think, plenty of swap: > > PC% swapinfo > Total 687872 0 687872 0% > PC% df -k > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/sd0s2g 653279 43890 557127 7% /home.215 > /dev/sd1s1f 127151 43890 73089 38% /var.226 The filesystems here are smaller than available swap, but not by much. The "memory exhausted" error is printed when a malloc fails, i.e., diff tries to allocate more memory, but cannot. > Clearly, /proc is full but I don't know enough about that to know > if that is the problem or not nor do I know what to do about it if > it is. I can't recall if /proc normally is shown to be full or > not but it seems to me that it is. Yes, /proc should look full. > Since I've never used this tape drive before, I should very much > like to verify that my experimental dump/restore was successful > before I entrust my /home file system to it before installing 2.2.8 > and re-organizing my disks. You could compare results of MD5 hashes... Hope that helps. -- Matt Curtin cmcurtin@interhack.net http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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