On May 18, "To [EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:

[snip]

For future google searching, I transcribe this off-list conversation
regarding mmap and freebsd (thank you [EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> > > Have a look at the -m option for flow-cat to disable mmap.  That fixes
> > > this problem for me on freebsd...but it's possible it's a freebsd
> > > specific issues.

> > is it possible you're hitting the vm.max_proc_mmap restriction?  

> Yes :)
> Is there anything I need to consider before I set this variable to
> 2147483648 (2G)?  :)

just set it to zero.. it disables the check. it's mostly so that threads
and rfork() and such don't steal vm resources and send a machine
spiraling.

>                       Is there a good place to look for documentation on
> sysctl variables?  man 3 sysctl didn't have anything about it.

i noticed this by reading what could return ENOMEM in the mmap(2) page.
other than that, i use the code and my co-workers. :-)
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