Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:20:35 -0800 (PST) From: Arone Silimantia <aronesimi@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: beefy system exhausted by MRTG port install (Cannot allocate memory) Message-ID: <75194.58855.qm@web58602.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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New, modern, p4-xeon based system. 4 GB physical RAM: # dmesg|grep emory real memory = 3489071104 (3327 MB) avail memory = 3418656768 (3260 MB) 4 GB swap: # swapinfo Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity /dev/da0s1b 4194304 40 4194264 0% And because it has a multi-TB filesystem attached, it even has a big number here: # cat /boot/loader.conf kern.maxdsiz="3072000000" So imagine my surprise when I: # cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/mrtg ; make install (snip, snip) ===> Patching for png-1.2.12_1 ===> Applying FreeBSD patches for png-1.2.12_1 ===> Configuring for png-1.2.12_1 ===> Building for png-1.2.12_1 cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -c png.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -c pngset.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -c pngget.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -c pngrutil.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -c pngtrans.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -c pngwutil.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -c pngread.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -c pngrio.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -c pngwio.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -c pngwrite.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -c pngrtran.c virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory *** Error code 1 after this attempt, swapinfo still shows zero swap in use. What does this mean ? Is my system now in an unstable state ? Should I reboot ? --------------------------------- TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV.
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