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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Stewart
>
> I have been chasing down a memory problem for a few days now and would
> appreciate any pointers you might have. We have an application that
> allows for uploads of large (>50MB) files. We have a case with Netscape
> (works fine with IE) that produces a "Ouch!: malloc failed in
> malloc_block" error out of alloc.c with the modssl patches. While
> debugging the problem I found that the "is_shm" variable is never set
> when entering malloc_block. This routine is called from new_block which
> is called by ap_palloc and make_sub_pool_internal. Does is_shm set to 0
> mean that we are not running with shared memory on our system? I have
> defined EAPI and EAPI_MM and that section of code is being hit (see
> below).
>
> Apache is very consistent with the error. We can upload exactly
> 42,590,208 bytes and the error hits. Am I missing something in the
> compilation? Thanks for your help!
Could you be running into some operating system limits?
Can you try the following as root?
echo 134217728 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
If that works add this line to /etc/sysctl.conf to have it done
automatically at boot.
kernel.shmmax=134217728
-Dave
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