Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:05:18 +0100 From: Uwe Doering <gemini@geminix.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Out of memory and inactive memory Message-ID: <4028E51E.7020302@geminix.org> In-Reply-To: <NCBBKDEJPKDJIAKBLIEEIECGIIAA.dmo@oberon.nl> References: <NCBBKDEJPKDJIAKBLIEEIECGIIAA.dmo@oberon.nl>
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Douwe Osinga wrote:
> I'm running Zope under FreeBSD 4. Zope keeps getting memory errors, i.e.
> malloc() fails. But top reports lots of inactive memory available. I'm new
> to BSD, but I did search around in archives and I think I learned that
> inactive memory is only kept around in case it is needed again and should be
> given to a process needing it. So why does Zope fail here?
Do you happen to have a per-process data size limit? What does
ulimit -a
or
limit
show? The former is for sh or bash, the latter for csh or tcsh.
Uwe
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