Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 23:14:36 +0100 From: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Out of memory during "large" request Message-ID: <440F574C.9040902@intersonic.se> In-Reply-To: <44lkvl9egk.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <440D943E.7060200@intersonic.se> <44lkvl9egk.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> writes: > >> FreeBSD 6-STABLE >> >> Got this when I ran a Perl script: >> Out of memory during "large" request for 33558528 bytes >> >> Would this be good syntax in /boot/loader.conf, the system has 2G RAM: >> vm.kmem_size_max=671088640 >> to try to cure the problem? Where do I best learn more about memory tuning? > > Are you sure you're not just running into process limits, as opposed > to kernel limits? Honestly, no. But on a 5.4 system I did cure the same problem with the line "kern.maxdsiz="768M"" in loader.conf and I thought "vm.kmem_size" would be the corresponding parameter in 6?
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