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From: adoane@eagle.ais.net (Andrew J. Doane)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Can't malloc errors; INND system
Date: 11 Jul 1995 04:23:14 GMT
Organization: American Information Systems, Inc.
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I'm fairly new to BSDI, although I am familiar with Linux, Unixware,
and other SVR4 machines.

I am running BSDI 2.0 (with 1-11 kernel patches) on a P90 w/32 meg.
100 meg Swap partition.

The machine is used for news, running INND 1.4sec2.  I apparently have 
some memory leaks.  INND is trying to fork off NNRP and is failing
due to malloc errors.

ps shows that each nnrp is using about 1 meg ram, innd is using about 3.
I am confused why the system wouldn't just swap out if it was really
running out of ram.

Anyone have any ideas?  Is this a known problem?  Other than ps or top,
is there some commands to display ram/swap status?

-Andrew

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    _/    _/  _/  _/                                        Andrew J. Doane
   _/_/_/_/  _/  _/_/_/_/                           Vice President, Systems
  _/    _/  _/        _/                  American Information Systems, Inc.
 _/    _/  _/  _/_/_/_/          E-mail: adoane@ais.net, http://www.ais.net