beefy system exhausted by MRTG port install (Cannot allocate memory)

[Arone Silimantia]

--- Eric Anderson <anderson at freebsd.org> wrote:


> > after this attempt, swapinfo still shows zero swap
> in use.
> > 
> > What does this mean ?
> > 
> > Is my system now in an unstable state ?  Should I
> reboot ?
> 
> Did you try reducing your maxdsiz to something a few
> hundred mb's less?


No - after the 'make install' stopped I have not
touched anything.  As I said, swapinfo still shows
zero swap being used.

It's a Big Deal (TM) to bring this system down, and I
believe maxdsiz cannot be tuned on the fly with sysctl
... are you suggesting that either make or cc just
gets out of hand and makes a process too big for
themselves ?

If so, is it possible to tell make or cc to behave
ahead of time, and leave maxdsiz alone ?

Thanks.


 
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