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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