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From: peter@cyklop.volvo.se (peter hakanson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Help: BSDI 2.1 Out of Memory error
Date: 28 Aug 1996 19:16:23 GMT
Organization: Volvo Corp.
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On 2.0 the default datasize limit was 16M. I don't know 
about 2.1.

But you may raise limit for a process with the 'limit' command,
(or by recompiling the kernel). There is probebly other ways too.

Regards
Peter Hakanson/VolvoData
Michael Spinn (mspinn@iag.net) wrote:
:  I recently started getting an Out of Memory error when rebuilding my
: sendmail aliaseses file.  The file has 34000 entries and was working fine
: untill yesterday.  Now it processes about 29K then dies with the error.

:  I ran vmstat while it was rebuilding and saw avail memory drop to about 300,
: and swap space to about 60% available.  Should of have had plenty of swap to finish.

:   I was running a MFS mounted /tmp, but removed that.  No help there.

:   Any help would be appreciated.

:   System Info:
:   BSDI 2.1 Generic 
:   16Mb real and 48 Mb swap memory
:   /tmp as ln -s /usr/tmp (600 MB available on /usr partition)
:   sendmail 8.7.5

:   Regards,

:    Mike Spinn.

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Peter Hakanson  VolvoData Dep 2580 phone +46 31 66 74 27