Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 09:00:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/8275: w/top/etc randomly fail with 'Cannot allocate memory' Message-ID: <199810121600.JAA21354@freefall.freebsd.org>
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From: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>
To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
Cc: root@shell1.dragondata.com, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/8275: w/top/etc randomly fail with 'Cannot allocate memory'
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 10:57:53 -0500 (CDT)
> "home.dragondata.com" <root@shell1.dragondata.com> writes:
> > bash-2.02# w
> > 1:10PM up 19 days, 54 mins, 7 users, load averages: 0.08, 0.48, 0.73
> > USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
> > w: kvm_getprocs: Cannot allocate memory: Cannot allocate memory
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> can.not ()
> ('kan-(.){a:}t; k*-'n{a:}t, ka-')
> can not
> -- cannot but to be bound to: MUST
> > >Fix:
> > Not sure, if someone has any clues, let me know and I'll start looking
> > though.
>
> Add more memory or swap to your computer.
>
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no
>
Sorry, I should have elaborated:
Mem: 222M Active, 27M Inact, 50M Wired, 60M Cache, 8277K Buf, 18M Free
Swap: 256M Total, 4532K Used, 252M Free, 2% Inuse
How can I be running out of memory?
real memory = 402653184 (393216K bytes)
avail memory = 391720960 (382540K bytes)
With 18MB free, and 60MB sitting in a cache, I can't see that I'm out of
just raw memory... Our of mbufs? Out of some fixed kind of memory? That's
what I don't know - what memory am I running out of?
Kevin
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