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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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