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Re: Out of memory errors when not out of memory ... what to do for OSF 4.0


On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 04:24:00AM +0000, Gareth Pearce wrote:
> The problem is (seems to be) that OSF has system limits predefined at a far 
> too low level, for a number of vm parameters.  including a maximum of 200 
> mem-maps per process.

It's not a problem with too-small ulimit settings?

> (without this change, mmap has to be disabled in autohost.h in order to 
> boostrap)

  --with-gc=simple

> b) prehaps a small check could be added to configure for OSF/1 alpha to
> display a warning saying that their mmap limit is too low, if it is.

Possibly.  You'd have to write such a thing.


r~


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