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- From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
- Subject: out of mem
- Message-ID: <C0CHCu.5EB@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:41:17 GMT
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- I seem to be having a major problem lately running out of
- virtual memory. I have 386bsd.01 with the majority of the
- patchkit installed. Hardware is a 486/33 with 16 megs memory,
- a couple of 210 meg ide drives and a 600 meg SCSI on and adaptek.
- I have a primary swap of 32 megs and a secondary of 30 megs on
- the scsi. Running the posted vstat program, it says I have
- 1475 pages free, which seems way too low. When ever I run
- the XS3 server, and run xv, each image reduces the available
- virtual mem until it bombs with "Virtual memory exhausted"
- Killing xv brings the memory back. However it is not xv!
- Without even running X, There are some programs that I try to
- compile, and I watch the virtual memory shrink to zero and
- the same error message pops up. I ran a recently posted
- virtual memory test program, and it bombs when requesting anything
- over 4 megs. Now, seeing as I have 16 megs real, and over 60 megs
- virtual, something is amiss!
- Do I have a mis-applied patch, or what?
- Thanks for any info.
- -randy
- --
- I am created Shiva the Destroyer; Death, the shatterer of worlds!
- Who is this dog meat who stands before me now?
- That's the biz, sweetheart.
- Randy Suess randy@chinet.chi.il.us
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