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From: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>
Subject: Re: bin/8275: w/top/etc randomly fail with 'Cannot allocate memory'
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The following reply was made to PR bin/8275; it has been noted by GNATS.

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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