From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 10 03:40:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 869B116A4CE for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 03:40:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay.versatel.net (relay.versatel.net [62.250.3.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4E0C43D1D for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 03:40:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmo@oberon.nl) Received: (qmail 4064 invoked from network); 10 Feb 2004 11:40:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO titus) (62.58.173.34) by relay.versatel.net with SMTP; 10 Feb 2004 11:40:07 -0000 From: "Douwe Osinga" To: Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:45:33 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: <7BE3FC68-5BB8-11D8-B77A-00306543FC26@proofreaders.demon.co.uk> Importance: Normal Subject: Out of memory and inactive memory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:40:09 -0000 Hi, I'm running Zope under FreeBSD 4. Zope keeps getting memory errors, i.e. malloc() fails. But top reports lots of inactive memory available. I'm new to BSD, but I did search around in archives and I think I learned that inactive memory is only kept around in case it is needed again and should be given to a process needing it. So why does Zope fail here? Douwe Osinga http://www.world66.com