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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Temporarily out of memory and swap space - but bogusly
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.233340.3178@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: raymond@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz ( Raymond W L Martin)
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:33:40 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.034635.10104@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.
- Keywords: dupreg swap process limit
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- raymond@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz ( Raymond W L Martin) writes:
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- >Our IRIX 4.0.4 on sgi 4d/320 is starting to report :
- >Nov 9 11:08:10 regu1 unix: NOTICE: fork - temporarily insufficient
- >memory to allocate uarea, process syslogd [32]
- >Nov 9 11:08:10 regu1 unix:
- >Nov 9 11:08:10 regu1 unix: NOTICE: dupreg - temporarily insufficient
- >memory to allocate virtual swap space, process mach [5077]
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- >and then refuse more processes. Even though it has 50 M memory free and
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- >is using 250 processes out of a 1000 process pool. Is there a fix in
- >4.0.5?
- >Ray Martin
- >University of Auckland
- >Computer Centre
- >Auckland
- >New Zealand (not yet part of Australia)
- >
- Eagle Technology's (Auckland) Dick Vlaanderen tells me to put the kernel
- tuning parameter availsmem_accounting = 0; The !0 options does not work
- well with IRIX 4. The system may try to allocate unneccessarily large
- chunks of virtual memory before each process starts.
- Hope this helps similarly foxed users.
- Ray Martin (again)
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