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From: vaden@texoma.net (Larry Vaden)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Help with INND; Cant Realloc memory?
Date: 24 Jan 1996 14:45:58 GMT
Organization: Internet Texoma, Inc.
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In article <4e0k5r$n7@quartz.goldrush.com>, larryt@goldrush.com wrote...
>
>I am having problems with INND.  It has been running for weeks, but all of a 
sudden,
>I get daily crashes with the following message: Jan 22 01:38:04 news innd: 
ME cant remalloc
> 262144 bytes Cannot allocate memory.  
>
>I do know what the message means, but I don't how to solve it.  The system 
is an i386, dx2 66mhz with
>32mb of ram, 2x4.5gb hard disks.  I have loaded all the BSDI patches.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>--Larry
>

We upgraded our news server to 64MB and added the following at the beginning 
of rc.news and news.daily

     limit datasize unlimited
     limit openfiles 256
     limit memoryuse unlimited
     limit maxproc unlimited

I hope this information is helpful to you.

Regards,

Larry

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