out of memory

[Jim Turner]

Mark,

   Thank you for your reply.

   I read in another post you made stating that setting a datasize
can force named to take more memory.  What is confusing is how do
you test or verify that named will now take the additional memory?
And is there an easy way to see what the process sees as it's limit
besides monitoring it until it dies?

   I also received another response from a gentleman that stated 
even if "options { datasize #; };" is set, the OS may restrict 
usage based on the user.  That kinda falls back on verifying that
named grabbed the memory you told it to take.

   Thanks again for your input.

________
Jim Turner
Systems Administration
netINS, Inc.
jimt at netins.net
515/830-0365




mark.andrews at nominum.com writes:
>
>
>> An odd problem as arisen in our use of bind8.2.2p5...
>> 
>> named has been dying off and on now for a few weeks...
>> it's very very sporatic and doesn't log much when it does.
>> e.g.:
>> 
>> Feb 22 16:25:46 ns1 named[15412]: rrsetadd: out of memory
>>                                                      finddata: out of
>> memory
>> 
>> or the very wierd one...
>> 
>>   Feb 18 23:46:12 ns1 named[15265]: ns_main.c:1719:
>> INSIST(evDeselectFD(ev, qp->evID_w) != -1): Invalid argument failed.
>> 
>> I've searched through this group and found some talking about
>> virutual memory evaporating.  The machine this runs on has 2GB
>> of physical memory and 2GB of swap space.  I wouldn't think it
>> would be a memory problem...
>
>	And what are the per process limits set to?
>	"options { datasize #; };" can be used to adjust the per process
>	limit.
>
>	Mark
>> 
>> but perhaps named isn't getting enough allocated by the OS
>> (Digital Unix 4.0e).  Has anyone else seen this happen before
>> and found any solutions?  tia.
>> 
>> ______________
>> Jim Turner
>> Systems Adminstration
>> netINS, Inc.
>> jimt at netins.net
>> 
>> 
>> 
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