skh@vi.ri.cmu.edu (Steve Handerson) (05/13/89)
I'm having trouble getting anything from Apollo on this, maybe someone already knows the answer. I also think that "response centers" should all be bulletin-board based, anyway, rather than forcing every responder to learn the same things. We have an application that builds linked lists of malloc'ed structures. Lots of them. On a 3500 running 9.7.1 (bsd4.2) with about 200 meg left free on a 330 meg disk,we get up to about 96 meg and the program dies. It dies inside sbrk inside malloc. The messages is: unable to allocate due to lack of resources (process manager/r/w/storage manager) The problem is not the unix resource limit, since that's 2 Gigabytes. This is apparently some aegis limit inside the process manager. It's also definitely not a disk limit, since we can run two of these pretty concurrently and they both bomb out around 96 meg. For the same reason, it's not a problem with the "os paging file size" on the disk, although I've tried setting it to its maximum (550 pages). This could be a problem with software compatibility, since we had a habit of using old release tapes for storage. Mail me if possible, otherwise post. I'll summarize if anyone knows. -- Steve -- Steve Handerson Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Dept. ARPA: skh@spice.cs.cmu.edu UUCP: ...!spice.cs.cmu.edu!skh (I think) Without chemicals, life itself would be impossible. (Monsanto ad?) 4 lines? I'll have to make it up in the body... --