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Subject: Re: Running Program memory limit
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At 02:16 AM 9/8/2005, Mark Ruggles wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>
>I'm using the pan newsreader in FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2 #0 build from 
>ports. Pan operates normally on small newsgroups with not to many 
>articles, however if i try to load a group with 1000000+ articles 
>(my servers have good retention) Pan seems to bomb out completely 
>whilst loading the groups articles, giving no errors or warnings.
>
>Memory usage for the process is high upto ~500meg RAM at any one 
>time when loading the group.
>
>Has the Kernel reached a theoretical limit for the size of a process 
>and killed it off?
>
>If so can this behaviour be changed at all?

How much RAM is in your system, and how big is your swap file?

If you have RAM and swap to back it up, a user process has 3GB of 
address space available to it.  You can alter that by changing 
KVA_PAGES in your kernel config, but it doesn't sound like that's 
what your problem is.

-Glenn


>thanks
>
>Mark
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