From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 20 04:47:17 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FC5A1729F2 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:47:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aronesimi@yahoo.com) Received: from web58602.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web58602.mail.re3.yahoo.com [68.142.236.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4075513C46B for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:47:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aronesimi@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 66539 invoked by uid 60001); 20 Feb 2007 04:20:35 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=hZE8HK6rlV+hdp1l+vjeL4/WXgXzFHx4aWErtOlU8qbLWiZN/QlvO+/YHkVJkd89mzXs65VwEiGkR2sDOFMdPcT9ghDs8S2hvr1G5j/AnKolMB3X+ii9vW7DFLIffzAqrvleYCBvJSuXNG6iZrTFnDn5dyAwXY2g+6u38UeZgpQ=; X-YMail-OSG: jRoK1ZMVM1n.RLknE7LuXSp4_ChKwZTSvlPwuNRhlrrYinuJ.ko42kJUXU0mTQAl7b6TSLdpQmAKBkx4KJukD1NT1CtrFsyqqvNsVTB_Ska_LQJeNVf_gQ-- Received: from [75.72.230.91] by web58602.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:20:35 PST Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:20:35 -0800 (PST) From: Arone Silimantia To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <75194.58855.qm@web58602.mail.re3.yahoo.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:10:46 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: beefy system exhausted by MRTG port install (Cannot allocate memory) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:47:17 -0000 New, modern, p4-xeon based system. 4 GB physical RAM: # dmesg|grep emory real memory = 3489071104 (3327 MB) avail memory = 3418656768 (3260 MB) 4 GB swap: # swapinfo Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity /dev/da0s1b 4194304 40 4194264 0% And because it has a multi-TB filesystem attached, it even has a big number here: # cat /boot/loader.conf kern.maxdsiz="3072000000" So imagine my surprise when I: # cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/mrtg ; make install (snip, snip) ===> Patching for png-1.2.12_1 ===> Applying FreeBSD patches for png-1.2.12_1 ===> Configuring for png-1.2.12_1 ===> Building for png-1.2.12_1 cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -c png.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -c pngset.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -c pngget.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -c pngrutil.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -c pngtrans.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -c pngwutil.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -c pngread.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -c pngrio.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -c pngwio.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -c pngwrite.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -c pngrtran.c virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory *** Error code 1 after this attempt, swapinfo still shows zero swap in use. What does this mean ? Is my system now in an unstable state ? Should I reboot ? --------------------------------- TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV.