lmb@rti.rti.org (Lisa M. Balbes) (02/16/91)
Last night, I left a single (rather cpu-intensive) background processs running, along with a few idle shell processes. When I came in this morning, I found the job had crashed after running 5 1/2 hours, and I had the following error message in the console window. WARNING: Process [sybyl.exe] pid 10828 killed due to insufficient memory/swap. Previously, an interactive graphics process crashed with the same message when there was a similar background job running. I re-started the job (from scratch), and after it has run for about an hour, df shows Filesystem Type blocks use avail %use Mounted on /dev/root efs 30360 27037 3323 89% / /dev/usr2 efs 1272705 276650 996055 22% /usr2 /dev/usr efs 1160580 449255 711325 39% /usr /debug dbg 143096 87448 55648 61% /debug and swap -l shows: path dev swaplo blocks free /dev/dsk/dks0d1s1 22,33 0 81144 51752 Neither of these looks to me like all the swap space is full. Am I missing something? We are running on a brand new 4D/310 VGX, IRIX version 3.3.1, and are supposed to have 32 MB of memory. As a NOVICE system administrator, is there anything I can do to fix this problem short of 1) buying more memory or 2) learning how to repartition a disk to add more swap space ? Thanks in advance - Lisa %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Note: Replies will probably bounce, send to balbes@osiris.rti.rti.org or lmb@rti.rti.org %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Lisa M. Balbes, Ph.D. "Life would be boring without problems." Research Triangle Institute P. O. Box 12194 919-541-6563 Work Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2194 919-490-1888 Home %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%