Re: `Out of memory' problem on commercial program ...
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Mon 01 Feb 1999, Nikhil Nair wrote:
>
> > 2.1. I had it running on my old system (Debian, mostly from about a year
> > ago), but after I upgraded to slink, it failed with `Out of memory'
> > errors. It's not the kernel - I've tried downgrading again, with no
>
> What does "ulimit -a" report? Is there anything obvious that is limited
> (e.g. "data seg size", "virtual memory") ?
>
> You *do* have a large enough swap partition? What does "free" report?
(Typescript below - I also include output from `size filename', as
suggested by Oscar Levi - thanks.)
This machine is a 366MHz 21164 with 128MB DRAM and 256MB swap (roughly) -
and it's doing almost nothing else. The only ulimit I'm not sure about is
the data seg size - but it appears to be at its hard limit ...
Script started on Mon Feb 1 17:27:17 1999
$ ulimit -a
core file size (blocks) 0
data seg size (kbytes) 20480
file size (blocks) unlimited
max locked memory (kbytes) unlimited
max memory size (kbytes) unlimited
open files 24
pipe size (512 bytes) 8
stack size (kbytes) 8192
cpu time (seconds) 3600
max user processes 30
virtual memory (kbytes) unlimited
$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 127176 124184 2992 16880 70080 27648
-/+ buffers/cache: 26456 100720
Swap: 265064 24 265040
$ size /usr/bin/mf77
text data bss dec hex filename
190336 4304 26528 221168 35ff0 /usr/bin/mf77
$ exit
Script done on Mon Feb 1 17:27:44 1999
Does that help? Just to clarify, the executable itself is identical to
the one which worked before the upgrade.
Cheers,
Nikhil.
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