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SubjectRe: pre-p-2.0.31-2: out of virtual memory

On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> I'm getting an 'Out of virtual memory' running on pre-patch-2.0.31-2,
> P133, 128MB RAM, 128MB swap, BusLogic, 3c509, 3c905, several EIDE and
> SCSI disks, running a news server.
>
> I share a *lot* of memory, and I'm thinking I might be exceeding some
> kernel VM limit. Is my addressable memory (given above config) 256MB,
> or greater than that? What else might this problem be?

Yes, the amount of VM on a system is equal to real RAM + swap space. The
general rule of thumb is to have twice as much swap as real ram, so a 256M
swap partition would not be out of the question.

Check /proc/meminfo (cat /proc/meminfo or use free) to find out what
exactly is going on.

Ian


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