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From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: MS FrontPage (2.0) server and FBSD 2.1.6/7
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:56:18 +1000
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John Soward wrote:
> 
> I tried to install MS' frontpage server on our webserver...it blew with a
> "virtual memory exhaused in 'new'" while recalculating links...it did run for
> quite a while first, but plenty of memory was free and swapinfo showed only 3%
> in use...our webserver does have ~1G of data...

Basically, your program (Frontpage) has exceeded it's VM limits, in all
probability the data segment.  You can increase the limits (as I have
done on our Squid proxy server) by use of the 'limit/ulimit' command(s)
and also by rebuilding your kernel with the following parameters-

options         "MAXDSIZ=536870912"     #Maximum Data Segment size =
512MB
options         "DFLDSIZ=268435456"     #Default Data Segment size =
256MB

I believe that the 'default' Data Seg size is ONLY 128MB!

> 
> This was with 2.1.6 on a PPro 166 (Intel Alder) 128M RAM

If you increase the D-S size, also be prepared to allocate lots of swap
space or nasty things will potentially happen to your system...

Tony