From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 21 17:22:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9E3F170317 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:22:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aronesimi@yahoo.com) Received: from web58605.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web58605.mail.re3.yahoo.com [68.142.236.203]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6977913C48D for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:22:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aronesimi@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 31976 invoked by uid 60001); 21 Feb 2007 17:22:30 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=bhdCn9Z7Zjuv/YkY9GzrdWkCBl1R7XyDDBCxJEou7GNnmR3tswIoH1Q9QIxgxRGwERVCiCx3OdD5rdzDS8uIP6U1XxniSXNILo8702RAU21FQZxOIVuAitPDnxP9fyfzJ6neY0Yg9ouDAyDAvnOz4EqG0qR7/Zf5HUp0Nm42JHM=; X-YMail-OSG: 1w_t1eEVM1mdhC8EaCnBNBai2tlCEt7kogfxm.h5cykykjzujXcP7j0DUJ0wOcQoBArRuKNHHLTn999.ChYlINM5JWNGuZUSMVjdmvucsSfPlUkuJ6PBJA-- Received: from [75.72.230.91] by web58605.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:22:30 PST Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:22:30 -0800 (PST) From: Arone Silimantia To: Eric Anderson In-Reply-To: <45DC461B.4090309@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <924616.31543.qm@web58605.mail.re3.yahoo.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:09:09 +0000 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: beefy system exhausted by MRTG port install (Cannot allocate memory) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:22:31 -0000 --- Eric Anderson wrote: > I don't know, but this seems to be a VM related > issue (not issue as in > bug). I think you've probably allocated pretty much > all your memory to > user-space stuff, and not left enough for the system > to function. If > you're on i386, and have all that set in maxdsiz, > you're probably too > close to the ceiling. I would drop it by ~500MB or > so just to be safe. > I'm absolutely no expert in this at all - I only > suggested it because > after tweaking my maxdsiz to a very large amount > like you did (to allow > for fsck), I successfully paniced my box on boot. > So, knowing that, I > would drop it down a bit. Thank you so much - this worked. I subtracted 500 MB from the large, 3 GB maxdsiz, and mrtg compiled just fine. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html