From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 8 09:40:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5A7616A41F for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:40:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark.ruggles@lcn.com) Received: from smtp.lcn.biz (smtp2.lcn.com [83.244.130.155]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E1CB43D45 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:40:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark.ruggles@lcn.com) Received: from [83.244.151.171] (helo=[83.244.151.171]) by smtp.lcn.biz with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EDJ0J-0002hL-H2; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:47:35 +0100 Message-ID: <4320071C.3080601@lcn.com> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:40:44 +0100 From: Mark Ruggles User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050816) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Glenn Dawson References: <43200167.7050209@lcn.com> <6.2.3.4.2.20050908022538.058ac010@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20050908022538.058ac010@cobalt.antimatter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Running Program memory limit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 09:40:59 -0000 The system is a Dell Xps gen 2 Laptop with 2 gig RAM 998meg free in swap, output of df -h: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s3a 248M 77M 151M 34% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/ad0s3e 496M 4.5M 452M 1% /tmp /dev/ad0s3f 19G 10G 6.9G 60% /usr /dev/ad0s3d 496M 50M 406M 11% /var the interesting thing is that the same thing happens when using mozilla thunderbird to do the same thing... Glenn Dawson wrote: > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >