On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 05:31:22PM +0800, Nan Xiao wrote: > Hi all, > > Greeting from me! > > I am running OpenBSD 6.3, and don't know from when, loading some > binary will prompt "Cannot allocate memory": > > $ egdb > ksh: egdb: Cannot allocate memory > > $ cmake > ksh: cmake: Cannot allocate memory > > But the memory seems enough: > $top > ...... > Memory: Real: 57M/1365M act/tot Free: 2546M Cache: 925M Swap: 0K/4103M > ...... > > I try to use "ktrace/kdump" tool, but can't find something special: > ...... > 21881 ktrace NAMI "/usr/local/bin/egdb" > 21881 ktrace RET execve -1 errno 12 Cannot allocate memory > ...... > > Could anyone give some clues? Thanks very much in advance! > Best Regards > Nan Xiao
Check your limits. ulimit -a from the shell will tell you what's wrong. you might also need to brush up on login.conf and get your user into a different class.
