From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 17 00:29:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA29630 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 00:29:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA29618 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 00:29:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA00492; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 09:28:48 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA07441; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 14:42:41 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970615144241.VR25113@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 14:42:41 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: handy@sag.space.lockheed.com (Brian N. Handy) Subject: Re: malloc failed? References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Brian N. Handy on Jun 11, 1997 09:21:56 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Brian N. Handy wrote: > > Also, back in 2.1, I ran into a problem where the max data size could > >not be increased greater than physical memory. I wonder if this could > >your problem too. > > Well, that's not my problem, I only have 80MB of physical memory. (I have > 240MB of swap, so I surmise that's not the problem either.) You're probably hitting the absolute hard limit. It's a compile-time option for your kernel. RTFLINT. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)