From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 28 18:27:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA26418 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 18:27:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA26409 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 18:27:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id TAA23087; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 19:27:30 -0700 (MST) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199703290227.TAA23087@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: VM error: OS or app? To: gregb@scls.lib.wi.us (Greg Barniskis) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 19:27:30 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199703282340.RAA21170@elink.scls.lib.wi.us> from "Greg Barniskis" at Mar 28, 97 05:43:42 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Virtual memory exceeded in `new' > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Is this an application error or is it coming from FreeBSD? It seems to > always occur during the "Merging" phase, so I suspect the app... If you > don't know, would you prompt me on where to dig deeper, please? This > process has nearly all of this machine's resources at its disposal, as I > am currently the only one logging in here. It's coming from the 'operator new' function in libgcc2. It's a part of the function __default_new_handler(), the low-level support library for C++ code. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com