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Date:      Sun, 16 Mar 1997 12:51:29 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@revelstone.jvm.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mmap failure on > 6 telnets 
Message-ID:  <199703162051.MAA13614@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Mar 1997 10:00:25 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.970316094406.20350B-100000@revelstone.jvm.com> 

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>I just installed 2.1.6 on a new system (yes, I know about 2.1.7, but 
>Walnut Creek hasn't seen fit to send my subscription copy yet and ftp 
>install failed).  Anyhow, if I start more than 6 or so telnet sessions, 
>the last one locks up and attempts to run anything else results in a 
>"mmap failure: 12", an incredibly helpful error message as you can see.  
>It also affects attempts to log in via console, so a power-off-on reboot 
>is the only recovery.  I also came in this morning and found it in this 
>state when noone had been accessing the machine all night except for ftp. 
>A look with top right before the lockup shows over 38 megs of free RAM.
>
>Our 2.1.5 systems have never exibited this kind of problem.  Can someone 
>give me some ideas on what is going wrong here?

   Sounds like you have no swap space configured. Error "12" is ENOMEM.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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