From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 18 23:47:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9DEE16A420 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:47:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from benw04@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0961B13C474 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:47:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from benw04@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so1086825rvb.43 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:47:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+YSi+CFHHOGod/KmA7jg6N8/hdp0js3NUjz0NRPiNiI=; b=emIu8zA+jK50b2XGuaIF+yM+oIRDhls4TFSkUFqQCNASpvU6ZffWZI2KX6+7ueybmuRwYs4d/zQkyKyPRnaMjVPSCXVA9EocupfJ4yeXIiW9t52vMhDn1HA+c4c8XJlRYoM+/l2KOBi7ycMYs3p2OE/M0ujUu8Q/065pdD2vgNQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=COM+gAe4qkycbZsmmUiBZAS9C3EVknEhcEKvTozNhw5CTHzsiydnRgVYvtO0VEz4IkeorBYoTbIKaWiv8wb+0Kt6EjcFx4rUrQ3iMLyx1RBBXTLQAerVTconO+1itHGy6NArpg80yRX+5QOzMwarTpBk8taJ9vXpt+H/RAqWcCU= Received: by 10.140.208.14 with SMTP id f14mr2781452rvg.283.1200700071300; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:47:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.4? ( [121.45.47.39]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b39sm286015rvf.8.2008.01.18.15.47.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:47:50 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <47913AA3.8080108@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:17:47 +1030 From: Ben Williams User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <47909C4D.8030500@iugo.com.au> <47913325.7000903@gmail.com> <20080119003216.Y5183@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20080119003216.Y5183@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: fsck_msdosfs failing 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: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:47:52 -0000 Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> fsck_msdosfs. >> >> I am able to run top at the same time, as as far as I can tell, it >> doesn't actually run out of memory - Mem has ~564k free, and Swap has >> 158mb free at its lowest when fsck_msdosfs is running. It's an old >> machine, with 192mb ram, and 359mb swap. > > but ulimit's defaults possibly limit memory... > check ulimit -a [ben@roma ~]$ ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited data seg size (kbytes, -d) 524288 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 2656 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 1 stack size (kbytes, -s) 65536 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 1328 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited [ben@roma ~]$ - Ben