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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!mn6.swip.net!seunet!news2.swip.net!nike.volvo.se!cyklop.volvo.se!peter From: peter@cyklop.volvo.se (peter hakanson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Help: BSDI 2.1 Out of Memory error Date: 28 Aug 1996 19:16:23 GMT Organization: Volvo Corp. Lines: 33 Message-ID: <5025u7$dfl@nike.volvo.se> References: <4vvtj9$g4@news.iag.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cyklop.volvo.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] On 2.0 the default datasize limit was 16M. I don't know about 2.1. But you may raise limit for a process with the 'limit' command, (or by recompiling the kernel). There is probebly other ways too. Regards Peter Hakanson/VolvoData Michael Spinn (mspinn@iag.net) wrote: : I recently started getting an Out of Memory error when rebuilding my : sendmail aliaseses file. The file has 34000 entries and was working fine : untill yesterday. Now it processes about 29K then dies with the error. : I ran vmstat while it was rebuilding and saw avail memory drop to about 300, : and swap space to about 60% available. Should of have had plenty of swap to finish. : I was running a MFS mounted /tmp, but removed that. No help there. : Any help would be appreciated. : System Info: : BSDI 2.1 Generic : 16Mb real and 48 Mb swap memory : /tmp as ln -s /usr/tmp (600 MB available on /usr partition) : sendmail 8.7.5 : Regards, : Mike Spinn. -- -- Peter Hakanson VolvoData Dep 2580 phone +46 31 66 74 27