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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!van-bc!news.iceonline.com!gcshome.iceonline.com!not-for-mail From: toor@gcshome.iceonline.com (Y. A. Sys Admin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: BSDI 2.1 & INN 1.4unoff4 Problem Date: 22 Nov 1996 08:43:16 -0800 Organization: Western Task Force Lines: 35 Sender: root@gcshome.iceonline.com Message-ID: <574l74$4fo@gcshome.iceonline.com> References: <arodriguez-1311961154230001@power-dog.bridge.net> <3295148E.56C6@netlabs.net> Reply-To: gerry@iceonline.com NNTP-Posting-Host: gcshome.iceonline.com In article <3295148E.56C6@netlabs.net>, Vince <vjb@netlabs.net> writes: |> Alex Rodriguez wrote: |> > |> > I have recently set up a new news server. It is on a P-133 with 128mb of |> > ram, I am using BSDI 2.1 and INN 1.4unoff4. My problem is I seem to be |> > having memory errors, I will post the log below. Anyone have any idea whats |> > up? |> > |> > Nov 12 10:55:47 skyway innd: ME cant fork /usr/contrib/lib/news/in.nnrpd |> > Cannot allocate memory Looks like a faq to me. What are your resource limits in rc.news? I WISH I had 128 MB of RAM for news - I currently run on 64 MB somehow without any problems like this. How many clients connects are we talking here? Each session eats about a MB here and innd gobbles about 50% of my available RAM. The only problem I see is missing articles which I suspect is from compiling with shlicc2 instead of gcc. |> > Nov 12 10:55:54 skyway innd: ME cant fork /usr/contrib/lib/news/in.nnrpd |> > Cannot allocate memory |> > |> |> I have the same problem crop up on my system BSDI 2.01 and INN |> 1.4unoff4. |> |> If I do a ps -auxw I see many instances of a news connection in the |> "connect" phase. |> And it has the result of eating all the memory. |> |> Unfortunately I don't have a fix. But I kill off the connect processes |> to get me through. |> |> |> Vince