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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