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Date:      Fri, 12 Jun 1998 16:13:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   INN 1.7.2; msg. "Can't remalloc 10175429 bytes, Cannot allocate memory"
Message-ID:  <199806122313.QAA10812@pau-amma.whistle.com>

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In today's output from news.daily, I found the above message; just like
below (much elided):

>Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 15:33:55 -0700 (PDT)
>From: News Subsystem <news@whistle.com>

>Server status:
>Server running
>Allowing remote connections
>Parameters c 14 i 0 (7) l 100000 o 51 t 300 H 2 T 60 X 0 normal specified
>Not reserved
>Readers separate enabled

>Lock files:
>LOCK.innwatch	LOCK.news.daily

>Server connections:
>news35.uu.net:5		news35.uu.net:16		
>news35.uu.net:18		news35.uu.net:19		
>news35.uu.net:20		news64.uu.net:17		
>news64.uu.net:21		overview!:24:proc:14286		

>Can't remalloc 10175429 bytes, Cannot allocate memory
>Renumbering active file.


I have some concerns about this:

* I can't tell what program issued that message.
* I can't tell when it was issued.
* I can't tell how much of a problem is being reported; I don't know
  what failed to work as a result of the symptoms that lead to the issuing
  of the message.
* I can't tell what I should do to prevent a recurrence of the message.

On the off chance that it's referring to (backing store for) virtual
storage:

news# swapinfo
Device      1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Type
/dev/wd0s1b    131072    21248   109760    16%    Interleaved

dmesg says:

FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE #0: Mon May 18 17:08:05 PDT 1998
    root@dhw-res-3.whistle.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/NEWS
CPU: Pentium (167.05-MHz 586-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x52c  Stepping=12
  Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
real memory  = 33554432 (32768K bytes)
avail memory = 30777344 (30056K bytes)


INN is installed from the port, and is started (at boot time) via:

news# cat /usr/local/etc/rc.d/innd.sh
#!/bin/sh
if [ $# -eq 0 -o x$1 = xstart ]; then
   if [ -x /usr/local/etc/rc.news -a -f /usr/local/news/lib/history.pag
]; then
      limits -C news /usr/local/etc/rc.news && echo ' inn'
   fi
fi
if [ x$1 = xstop ]; then
        [ -x /usr/local/news/bin/ctlinnd shutdown machine is going down
fi
news# 


Also, I checked the searchable list archives, and saw some similar
questions, but no answers.

Help?

Thanks,
david
-- 
David Wolfskill		UNIX System Administrator
dhw@whistle.com		voice: (650) 577-7158	pager: (650) 371-4621

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