Out of memory during "large" request

[Lowell Gilbert]

Per olof Ljungmark <peo at intersonic.se> writes:

> FreeBSD 6-STABLE
> 
> Got this when I ran a Perl script:
> Out of memory during "large" request for 33558528 bytes
> 
> Would this be good syntax in /boot/loader.conf, the system has 2G RAM:
> vm.kmem_size_max=671088640
> to try to cure the problem? Where do I best learn more about memory tuning?

Are you sure you're not just running into process limits, as opposed
to kernel limits?