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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!alfa02.medio.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.cloud9.net!cloud9.net!tls From: tls@cloud9.net (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: INN on NetBSD (Anyone successful?) Date: 3 May 1995 16:30:16 GMT Organization: Cloud 9 Internet, White Plains, New York, USA Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3o8b2o$efb@news.cloud9.net> References: <3nhrvk$d1a@cheyenne.iac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cloud9.net In article <3nhrvk$d1a@cheyenne.iac.net>, Jim Miller <jmiller@iac.net> wrote: >Hi, > >I've been 99% pleased with Netbsd on Intel so far (the other 1% being >the lack of NIS server software) but I've run into a problem. > >I have INN 1.4 running on a 486 w/32 M RAM and 64 Meg of swap. This machine >runs flawlessly in every way that I can see, except INN will die once >every couple days with a "can't remalloc" error. This error message >is accompanied with the amount of memory it was trying to remalloc >(sometimes as low as 16000 bytes and sometimes over 100,000 bytes). You need to reset the resource limits. Some operating systems ship with stuff like datasize and stacksize and memoryuse and memorylocked set to unlimited by default; NetBSD does not. You could of course make INN do this -- it should. I found it quicker to make rc.news run with zsh and just unlimit everything there. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@cloud9.net Somewhere they're meeting on a pinhead, calling you an angel.