Re: malloc()/brk() failing with lots of mem. and swap space ?
Atiqullah Hashmi wrote:
>
> We are running Sol2.4 on a Sun 670. The applic. uses informix.
> At one point during execution, the applic. is failing in malloc().
> Although there is not sign of mem. shortage. Below are the relevant
> outputs of unix tools to determine mem/swap spaces etc.
> > informix configuration
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> BUFFERS 40000 # Maximum number of shared buffers *man
> SHMBASE 0xa000000 # Shared memory base address *man
> SHMVIRTSIZE 50000 # initial virtual shared memory segment size *
> SHMADD 8192 # Size of new shared memory segments (K) *man
> SHMTOTAL 160000 # Total shared memory (Kbytes). 0=>unlim (Change
> d from 250000) **man
Try setting SHMTOTAL to 0, which allows unlimited growth. If the problem
goes away, then your limit is too low for your usage.
Always use SHMTOTAL=0 unless you have heavy memory usage from other
applications on the same box or you have memory problems in other
applications.
Hope this helps,
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Mark.
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