From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 1 12:53:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA17460 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 12:53:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA17451 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 12:53:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA17437; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 20:53:05 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <19970901205304.41045@pavilion.net> Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 20:53:04 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Boot-Time Memory Allocation Problem?? :-( Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Can anyone shed any light on this please? It appear as if I've introduced a memory allocation problem into my FreeBSD-stable (2.2) machine. :( I've just done a cvsup/make/install operation, and rebuilt the kernel from my old config file. Now the system won't boot. It gives the following error (copied by hand): ccd0-3: Concatenated disk drivers swapon: adding /dev/sd0b as swap device swapon: adding /dev/sd1b as swap device swapon: adding /dev/sd2b as swap device Automatic reboot in pregress... /dev/rsd0a: clean, 658202 free (...... etc......) cannot alloc 7179074 bytes for lncntp /dev/rccd0a: CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM. /dev/rccd0c: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. It then breaks with a the usual single user shell prompt. If I fsck then I find no problems, and it runs! Exiting the shell causes the 'innd' process (yep, it's a news server) fire up. It then fails with: Sep 1 20:33:13 zebedee innd: SERVER cant malloc 1394460 bytes Cannot allocate memory If I run rc.news by hand it starts fine. Does anyone know what's happened recently to cause this memory limiting effect at boottime? Joe -- Josef Karthauser Technical Manager Email: joe@pavilion.net Pavilion Internet plc. [Tel: +44 1273 607072 Fax: +44 1273 607073]