From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 6 8:22: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from dominik.saargate.de (dominik.saargate.de [212.88.133.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAA7A156B7 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 08:22:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from domi@saargate.de) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dominik.saargate.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA17664; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 17:02:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from domi@saargate.de) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 17:02:49 +0100 (CET) From: Dominik Brettnacher To: "up@3.am" Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why I have to reboot at times; was:RE: uptimes, Woo Hoo In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, up@3.am wrote: > I thought this might be the case *except* I've had amanda complain that it > is "unable to allocate memory", every couple of weeks or so, and a reboot > is the only thing that fixes it. I have amanda as a "default" user in > /etc/login.conf, which has no restrictions (users are a different class > with lots of restrictions) Unfortunately, Amanda allocates SysV IPC Shared Memory and never frees it when there was a problem during a dump. You can see it with "ipcs" and remove it by using "ipcrm -m ". -- Dominik - http://www.saargate.de/~domi/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message