Running Program memory limit
Mark Ruggles
mark.ruggles at lcn.com
Thu Sep 8 02:40:59 PDT 2005
The system is a Dell Xps gen 2 Laptop with 2 gig RAM
998meg free in swap,
output of df -h:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s3a 248M 77M 151M 34% /
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
/dev/ad0s3e 496M 4.5M 452M 1% /tmp
/dev/ad0s3f 19G 10G 6.9G 60% /usr
/dev/ad0s3d 496M 50M 406M 11% /var
the interesting thing is that the same thing happens when using mozilla
thunderbird to do the same thing...
Glenn Dawson wrote:
> At 02:16 AM 9/8/2005, Mark Ruggles wrote:
>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I'm using the pan newsreader in FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2 #0 build from ports.
>> Pan operates normally on small newsgroups with not to many articles,
>> however if i try to load a group with 1000000+ articles (my servers
>> have good retention) Pan seems to bomb out completely whilst loading
>> the groups articles, giving no errors or warnings.
>>
>> Memory usage for the process is high upto ~500meg RAM at any one time
>> when loading the group.
>>
>> Has the Kernel reached a theoretical limit for the size of a process
>> and killed it off?
>>
>> If so can this behaviour be changed at all?
>
>
> How much RAM is in your system, and how big is your swap file?
>
> If you have RAM and swap to back it up, a user process has 3GB of
> address space available to it. You can alter that by changing KVA_PAGES
> in your kernel config, but it doesn't sound like that's what your
> problem is.
>
> -Glenn
>
>
>> thanks
>>
>> Mark
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