From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 24 20:22:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA08296 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 20:22:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gatekeep.ti.com (gatekeep.ti.com [192.94.94.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA08285 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 20:22:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vagner@spdc.ti.com) Received: from epcot.spdc.ti.com.spdc.ti.com ([192.226.26.53]) by gatekeep.ti.com (8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA09788; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 22:23:39 -0600 (CST) Received: by epcot.spdc.ti.com.spdc.ti.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09328; Mon, 24 Nov 97 22:21:36 CST From: vagner@spdc.ti.com (George Vagner) Message-Id: <9711250421.AA09328@epcot.spdc.ti.com.spdc.ti.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.5 out of memory? To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 22:21:35 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199711250145.RAA11645@implode.root.com> from "David Greenman" at Nov 24, 97 05:45:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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