beefy system exhausted by MRTG port install (Cannot allocate
memory)
Arone Silimantia
aronesimi at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 21 17:22:31 UTC 2007
--- Eric Anderson <anderson at freebsd.org> wrote:
> I don't know, but this seems to be a VM related
> issue (not issue as in
> bug). I think you've probably allocated pretty much
> all your memory to
> user-space stuff, and not left enough for the system
> to function. If
> you're on i386, and have all that set in maxdsiz,
> you're probably too
> close to the ceiling. I would drop it by ~500MB or
> so just to be safe.
> I'm absolutely no expert in this at all - I only
> suggested it because
> after tweaking my maxdsiz to a very large amount
> like you did (to allow
> for fsck), I successfully paniced my box on boot.
> So, knowing that, I
> would drop it down a bit.
Thank you so much - this worked.
I subtracted 500 MB from the large, 3 GB maxdsiz, and
mrtg compiled just fine.
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