From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 25 22:52:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA24240 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 22:52:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from alanchar.got.net (alanchat.got.net [207.167.91.64] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA24230 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 22:52:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alanchar@got.net) Received: (from alan@localhost) by alanchar.got.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA00666; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 22:57:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 22:57:11 -0800 (PST) From: Alan Char Message-Id: <199711260657.WAA00666@alanchar.got.net> To: dg@root.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.5 out of memory? Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I was indeed setting the datasize. Before I go installing 2.2.5 again (and then 2.2.2 again again if it fails), can someone confirm that there were modifications made in this area? The release notes don't say anything about it. Why would I run out of stack space so much sooner under 2.2.2 than 2.2.5? This seems even less likely than running out of data space sooner. I have never seen this "out of memory" dialog with netscape until FreeBSD 2.2.5. Any info on changes to the rlimit code would be helpful. Thanks. --Alan, alanchar@got.net > From: David Greenman > > >I thought about that, however, I used limits to launch both netscape and > >the X server with a 512M memory limit, and it didn't change the behavior. > > Which memory limit did you set? There are three of them. Netscape is > probably hitting the data limit, but it could also be the stack limit.