On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:49:22 -0800, Brad Penoff wrote:
BP I have a 32-bit machine with 2 GB running FreeBSD 8. I have a complex
BP application that starts getting ENOMEM once the resident memory is
BP about 200 MB. I adjusted the appropriate /boot/loader.conf and
BP /etc/login.conf settings
Thanks Anton for the advice about a low kern.maxdsiz . Does that work
on your machine? I tried to give instructions in the original post so
that anyone can tune their machine and try to see what I am seeing.
Can others try to see on their own machines if the suggestions work?
I'll do anything to
Solved!!!
Peter Lei of Cisco noticed this application uses mmap rather than
malloc so I could get what I wanted (go beyond 200 MB without ENOMEM)
if I adjusted sysctl -w vm.max_proc_mmap to be a higher value.
Thanks so much for everyone's help,
brad
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Brad Penoff
Greetings,
I have a 32-bit machine with 2 GB running FreeBSD 8. I have a complex
application that starts getting ENOMEM once the resident memory is
about 200 MB. I adjusted the appropriate /boot/loader.conf and
/etc/login.conf settings resulting in an increase in the limit
values to around 2