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From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
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Cc: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>, freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: mlockall() failes on amd64 
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> > On Sep 16,  7:17pm, danny@cs.huji.ac.il (Danny Braniss) wrote:
> > -- Subject: Re: mlockall() failes on amd64
> > 
> > | > On Sep 16,  2:55pm, danny@cs.huji.ac.il (Danny Braniss) wrote:
> > | > -- Subject: mlockall() failes on amd64
> > | > 
> > | > | with am-utils  6.1.5, on a amd64 6.1-STABLE kernel i see:
> > | > | 	Couldn't lock process pages in memory using mlockall()
> > | > | while it's ok on a i386:
> > | > | 	Locked process pages in memory
> > | > | 
> > | > 
> > | > We should really fix amd to print the errno string when system calls
> > | > fail; now we can only scratch our heads.
> > | > 
> > | > christos
> > | sorry, here is the full message:
> > | Couldn't lock process pages in memory using mlockall(): Resource temporarily 
> > | unavailable
> > | 
> > | or error = EAGAIN (ED :-)
> > 
> > heh!
> > 
> > FreeBSD's vm system is very different from NetBSD's, and I am not familiar
> > with it. The first and easiest thing to do is to check if the resource limit
> > for locked memory is set too low. Then hunt in the kernel sources for mlockall
> > and print the arguments it passes to the vm system. Anyway, the error is not
> > fatal, and amd should keep working after that.
> > 
> > christos
> 
> im trying to figure out why it core dumped, for the very first time, 
> (and i don't have the core :-(, and the only thing that was special
> on this host, is that we are trying out postgres with allot of memory
> requierements, so i thought that maybe it's memory ...
> oh well, bug-hunting hat still on :-)

some more information:
	an am-utils child will exit on signal 11
(so far can't get the core) whenever memory gets tite.

danny