Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:00:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Spike Gronim <spork@cncn.com> To: Andriy I Pilipenko <pai@nbu.zp.ua> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange problem with memory Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980427165927.228E-100000@pigstuy> In-Reply-To: <35449DD6.FFCE5E61@nbu.zp.ua>
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On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Andriy I Pilipenko wrote: > Hi! > > In my organization I have two PC servers running FreeBSD. One > have 32M RAM and other have 64M RAM. > > I've tried to compile mico-c++ on this machines but C++ compiler > constantly complained about shortage of memory. For monitoring > memory usage I used `top' and saw, that compiler allocated more > than 30M of memory. At the same time system had about 10M free > RAM and 40M free swap (on 64M system, of course). On 32M system > digits is different (0M free RAM and about 60M free swap), but > compiling aborts with the same message - "virtual memory > exhausted". > > Next, I run GIMP and tried to load very large image. Things > repeated - system had plenty of free memory and at the same time > application complained about shortage of memory :( > > > Any idea or suggestion? > > Thanks in advance. > > P.S. Please CC to my e-mail! I'm not subscribed to -questions. > > -- > National Bank of Ukraine > Zaporizhia regional department Andriy I Pilipenko > System Administrator pai@nbu.zp.ua If you were running these programs as a normal user, not the superuser, you may be running in to limitations imposed by /etc/login.conf. Try upping the memory limits in that file to get rid of these problems. -Spike Gronim spork@cncn.com "Hacker, n: One who hacks real good" --Computer Contradictionary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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