Out of memory and inactive memory

2004-02-10 Thread Douwe Osinga
Hi, I'm running Zope under FreeBSD 4. Zope keeps getting memory errors, i.e. malloc() fails. But top reports lots of inactive memory available. I'm new to BSD, but I did search around in archives and I think I learned that inactive memory is only kept around in case it is needed again and should

Re: Out of memory and inactive memory

2004-02-10 Thread Uwe Doering
Douwe Osinga wrote: I'm running Zope under FreeBSD 4. Zope keeps getting memory errors, i.e. malloc() fails. But top reports lots of inactive memory available. I'm new to BSD, but I did search around in archives and I think I learned that inactive memory is only kept around in case it is needed

RE: Out of memory and inactive memory

2004-02-10 Thread Douwe Osinga
Do you happen to have a per-process data size limit? What does Hey, thanks, that could be it. It says datasize limit = 130 Mbyte sort of where the process stopped working. Is there a way to change this setting on a global scale? I.e. if I limit datasize unlimited, it seems that only works for

Re: Out of memory and inactive memory

2004-02-10 Thread Uwe Doering
Douwe Osinga wrote: Do you happen to have a per-process data size limit? What does Hey, thanks, that could be it. It says datasize limit = 130 Mbyte sort of where the process stopped working. Is there a way to change this setting on a global scale? I.e. if I limit datasize unlimited, it seems