Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:22:30 -0800 (PST) From: Arone Silimantia <aronesimi@yahoo.com> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: beefy system exhausted by MRTG port install (Cannot allocate memory) Message-ID: <924616.31543.qm@web58605.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <45DC461B.4090309@freebsd.org>
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--- Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> wrote: > I don't know, but this seems to be a VM related > issue (not issue as in > bug). I think you've probably allocated pretty much > all your memory to > user-space stuff, and not left enough for the system > to function. If > you're on i386, and have all that set in maxdsiz, > you're probably too > close to the ceiling. I would drop it by ~500MB or > so just to be safe. > I'm absolutely no expert in this at all - I only > suggested it because > after tweaking my maxdsiz to a very large amount > like you did (to allow > for fsck), I successfully paniced my box on boot. > So, knowing that, I > would drop it down a bit. Thank you so much - this worked. I subtracted 500 MB from the large, 3 GB maxdsiz, and mrtg compiled just fine. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html
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