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Subject:    Re: out of memory in map_pty and make_file
From:       Jon Drukman <jsd () gamespot ! com>
Date:       1999-05-18 20:15:09
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Brendan Faherty wrote:
>     I'm syncing a large web tree across a rather poor connection ( Georgia
> to California ).  It fails about 30% of the time, running as a cron job at
> midnight.  The failures are usually due to a timeout of the connection.
> However, this past week I've been receiving new errors, related to memory
> constraints.

are you really out of memory or are you hitting a per-process limit?

i have found that most times people think the machine is out of memory,
it isn't really, it's just that their particular login isn't allowed to
gobble more RAM.  the way you change this depends on your system and
shell.  for FreeBSD with tcsh (my combo), you use /etc/login.conf and
the "limit" command of the shell.

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Jon Drukman
Director of Web Systems
GameSpot Inc.

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