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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!concert!sas!mozart.unx.sas.com!torpid.unx.sas.com!sastdr From: sastdr@torpid.unx.sas.com (Thomas David Rivers) Subject: VM problems w/unlimited memory? Sender: news@unx.sas.com (Noter of Newsworthy Events) Message-ID: <C3qpIH.Is9@unx.sas.com> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 19:44:40 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: torpid.unx.sas.com Organization: SAS Institute Inc. Lines: 73 I was following the thread about compiling large arrays and the memory limits; so I thought I would try out something. Since I use the sh (actually bash) there is no limit command; so I thought to myself - I'll just run csh; reset the limit and crank up a sh... Ok, Here's the result: [puddles]$ csh % limit cputime unlimited filesize unlimited datasize 6144 kbytes stacksize 512 kbytes coredumpsize unlimited memoryuse 6916 kbytes memorylocked unlimited maxproc 40 openfiles 64 % unlimit % limit cputime unlimited filesize unlimited datasize 32768 kbytes stacksize 32768 kbytes coredumpsize unlimited memoryuse 6916 kbytes memorylocked unlimited maxproc unlimited openfiles unlimited % sh < Reboot... no panic or nothin'> I was doing this on an 8-meg, 386SX w/ 30 megs of swap space, using a kernel patched up to 83 (not 84-110.) My fstab looks like: /dev/wd0b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/wd0a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd0h /usr ufs rw 1 2 And the label on wd0 is: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 40800 0 4.2BSD 512 4096 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 149) b: 61200 40800 swap # (Cyl. 150 - 374) c: 253776 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 932) d: 253776 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 932) h: 151776 102000 4.2BSD 512 4096 16 # (Cyl. 375 - 932) And, there is a "swapon -a" command in my /etc/rc (just before the mounts of the nonfs file systems.) I do notice a *lot* of disk activity, just before the machine reboots, as if the machine was trying to seek to the correct sector. This is an IDE drive, so it shouldn't have any bad sectors, and my disklabel doesn't enable badsectors. I imagine it's something to do with swaping, but I don't know what... Also, if I simply do "csh", then "sh" - I don't get the reboot, and everything works fine... Finally, since I didn't see a panic message, I thought I'd look at /var/log/messages, but nothing is in there either.... - Dave Rivers - (rivers@ponds.uucp (home)) (sastdr@unx.sas.com (work)) -- UPDATE ALL INFORMATION AND POD INTO COSMOS - Federal Express