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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5944 ; Sat, 02 Jan 93 01:03:10 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!mcdchg!chinet!randy From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) Subject: out of mem Message-ID: <C0CHCu.5EB@chinet.chi.il.us> Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:41:17 GMT Lines: 25 I seem to be having a major problem lately running out of virtual memory. I have 386bsd.01 with the majority of the patchkit installed. Hardware is a 486/33 with 16 megs memory, a couple of 210 meg ide drives and a 600 meg SCSI on and adaptek. I have a primary swap of 32 megs and a secondary of 30 megs on the scsi. Running the posted vstat program, it says I have 1475 pages free, which seems way too low. When ever I run the XS3 server, and run xv, each image reduces the available virtual mem until it bombs with "Virtual memory exhausted" Killing xv brings the memory back. However it is not xv! Without even running X, There are some programs that I try to compile, and I watch the virtual memory shrink to zero and the same error message pops up. I ran a recently posted virtual memory test program, and it bombs when requesting anything over 4 megs. Now, seeing as I have 16 megs real, and over 60 megs virtual, something is amiss! Do I have a mis-applied patch, or what? Thanks for any info. -randy -- I am created Shiva the Destroyer; Death, the shatterer of worlds! Who is this dog meat who stands before me now? That's the biz, sweetheart. Randy Suess randy@chinet.chi.il.us