Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 02:31:41 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@hades.hell.gr> To: Youlgok <youlgok@attglobal.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q] Message from syslogd... Message-ID: <20000126023141.A18361@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <388D29DA.D3EED122@attglobal.net>; from youlgok@attglobal.net on Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 11:43:07PM -0500 References: <388D29DA.D3EED122@attglobal.net>
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On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 11:43:07PM -0500, Youlgok wrote: > To Whom It May Concern: > > What does following message mean? It appears while I was using the > system. And when I commanded a command, 'out of memory' message > appears. After closing a couple of applications, it works normally. > Is this a message of out of system memory? > > Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jan 24 23:00:00 2000 ... > Jan 24 23:00:00atrun[: cannot read /var/at/jobs/ Could be that you've run out of memory for good, but I can't tell for sure. The cause of this message is that atrun (run periodically by crond, as one can see from /etc/crontab) can not read the contents of the indicated directory. Since browsing the contents of a directory does require some, not so huge, but measurable amount of memory, I think you're basically right. Have you tried adding some swap space? Not the best thing one should do for long term solution, but it can help to solve the problem temporarily. And FreeBSD is such a beauty at handling virtual memory, swapping and the likes... -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > "Don't let your schooling interfere with your education." [Mark Twain] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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