Re: [osol-discuss] URGENT: Kernel lets 32bit process consume 4G memory?

2010-04-25 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] To get around the problem pmap: cannot examine 5608: address space is changing and get a closer look, try stopping the process first: pstop 5608 and then running pmap or whatever to inspect it, and finally running prun 5608 to let it run again. Why is pmap not

Re: [osol-discuss] URGENT: Kernel lets 32bit process consume 4G memory?

2010-04-25 Thread Hugh McIntyre
Richard L. Hamilton wrote: [...] To get around the problem pmap: cannot examine 5608: address space is changing and get a closer look, try stopping the process first: pstop 5608 and then running pmap or whatever to inspect it, and finally running prun 5608 to let it run again. Why is

Re: [osol-discuss] URGENT: Kernel lets 32bit process consume 4G memory?

2010-04-25 Thread Casper . Dik
A 32-bit process _can't_* be bigger than 4GB, and as far as the kernel is concerned, AFAIK won't be bigger than 2GB in terms of regular memory (although it could have a frame buffer or something mapped in the part of the address space reserved for I/O devices, making its total size perhaps appear

Re: [osol-discuss] URGENT: Kernel lets 32bit process consume 4G memory?

2010-04-25 Thread Yves Huang
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Richard L. Hamilton rlha...@smart.net wrote: [...] To get around the problem pmap: cannot examine 5608: address space is changing and get a closer look, try stopping the process first: pstop 5608 and then running pmap or whatever to inspect it,

Re: [osol-discuss] URGENT: Kernel lets 32bit process consume 4G memory?

2010-04-25 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] Recent ksh93 has a lot of built-in commands that used to require running external programs. Is there any documentation about this feature? The ksh93 man page includes some (but perhaps not all) information about builtin commands. The ksh93 built-in command builtin will list all

[osol-discuss] URGENT: Kernel lets 32bit process consume 4G memory?

2010-04-24 Thread Yves Huang
Good Day all; I'm new here. We have an urgent problem. A test server which is ready for demonstration (and purchase from Sun/Oracle) suffers from some kind of kernel problem: A 32bit process (ksh) started to consume more than 4G of memory and is still running but defeats some attempts to observe

Re: [osol-discuss] URGENT: Kernel lets 32bit process consume 4G memory?

2010-04-24 Thread Yves Huang
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Yves Huang yves.huang.proje...@googlemail.com wrote: Good Day all; I'm new here. We have an urgent problem. A test server which is ready for demonstration (and purchase from Sun/Oracle) suffers from some kind of kernel problem: A 32bit process (ksh) started to

Re: [osol-discuss] URGENT: Kernel lets 32bit process consume 4G memory?

2010-04-24 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
A 32-bit process _can't_* be bigger than 4GB, and as far as the kernel is concerned, AFAIK won't be bigger than 2GB in terms of regular memory (although it could have a frame buffer or something mapped in the part of the address space reserved for I/O devices, making its total size perhaps appear

Re: [osol-discuss] URGENT: Kernel lets 32bit process consume 4G memory?

2010-04-24 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
(oops, got chopped in the forum the first time, due to punctuation it didn't like) A 32-bit process _can't_* be bigger than 4GB, and as far as the kernel is concerned, AFAIK won't be bigger than 2GB in terms of regular memory (although it could have a frame buffer or something mapped in the part

Re: [osol-discuss] URGENT: Kernel lets 32bit process consume 4G memory?

2010-04-24 Thread Yves Huang
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Richard L. Hamilton rlha...@smart.net wrote: A 32-bit process _can't_* be bigger than 4GB, and as far as the kernel is concerned, AFAIK won't be bigger than 2GB in terms of regular memory (although it could have a frame buffer or something mapped in the part of