Re: Memory

[jserrachinha <jserrachinha@camilopinto.pt>]

Eicke wrote:

> I forgot to say that in both cases there were 5.5 Gb of free Memory.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eicke" <eick.jac@terra.com.br>
> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:12 AM
> Subject: Memory
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> > Hi folks,
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> > I have a machine with 6Gb of memory. I installed the last version of
> >    
> Debian
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> > and linux kernel 2.4.21.
> > I am trying to run the cap3 (ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,
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> version
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> > 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped), but the
> > following error occurs:
> > Ran out of memory: -874931512 bytes requested
> > I monitored and when the software reach 1.9 Gb the error occours.
> > Then I test another application all_align.pl (perl script text
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> executable),
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> > and when the script reach 3.0 Gb the following error occours:
> > out of memory
> >
> > In the first case I think is a software problem but in the second I guess
> > there is something in Operating System or Kernel configuration. I ran as
> > root and as common user in both cases.
> >
> >
> > Could you help me ?
> > Regards.
> > Eicke.
> >
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I'm using Debian sid 2.4.21-5
Since the last upgrade (today), the same is happen to me.
# tar xvf linux-2.6.0-test4
in another term
# procinfo -Dn1
All the memory is gone in few seconds!!