Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 01:03:38 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Chiu <chiuk@cs.indiana.edu> To: George Vagner <vagner@spdc.ti.com> Cc: dg@root.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.5 out of memory? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971125005436.1367F-100000@ganymede.bloomington.nsisw.com> In-Reply-To: <9711250421.AA09328@epcot.spdc.ti.com.spdc.ti.com>
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Check man login.conf and the man page for your shell (search for 'limit'). On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, George Vagner wrote: > so how do we fix it? (process memory problem) > > I got the same problem. > > > > > > >I've experience a similar problem with Communicator 4.03b8 D/L'ed directly > > >from netscape while using 3.0 -current (I wonder which release they are > > >building from?). I was running TOP at the same time which said I had > > >plenty of free memory, ~50MB (It's REALLY hard to believe that running > > >only AccelX, top, pppd and Netscape w/ no other users logged in that I > > >could consume 128MB of memory and not touch my swap file!). What bought > > >me a few extra pages was to blast both my memory and disk caches. > > >Unfortunately that's only a band-aid which doesn't last very long before > > >Netscape starts whining again. My long term solution was to stop surfing > > >when I reached that point (kinda used it as a timer to limit my web > > >surfing :-) ). > > > > > >(BTW, yes I did rebuild my kernel w/ MAXMEM=131072 and top was able to see > > >all my memory) > > > > You're hitting the process memory resource limit, not running out of system > > memory. > > > > -DG > > > > David Greenman > > Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > > > > > -- > > > Laszlo G. Vagner > Texas Instruments > 13570 N. Central expressway M/S 3703 > Dallas, Texas 75243 > (972)995-4297 > (972)598-5217 Pager > Email vagner@tee eye dot com <SPAM purposes > http://web2.airmail.net/kf7nn >
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