Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:01:27 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Tim Traver <tt@simplenet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shared memory release... Message-ID: <4069D217.60408@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040330112609.01fa3ec0@mail1.simplenet.com> References: <6.0.1.1.0.20040330112609.01fa3ec0@mail1.simplenet.com>
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Tim Traver wrote: > Ok, I am running a 4.7 FreeBSD box that is a web server running apache. > > It looks like some module that I have is leaking memory, and eventually, > apache crashes on restarts becuase of this error : > > shmget() failed: No space left on device > > which means it can't get any more memory, which I understand. SysV shared memory is a limited resource which has tunables you need to set or adjust in your kernel config file. It's not the same as physical RAM. > When I look at the top list, it shows me something like this : > > Mem: 140M Active, 879M Inact, 151M Wired, 181M Cache, 199M Buf, 660M Free top is measuring something else, here. -- -Chuck
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