Re: Increase memory limit ?

2003-01-20 Thread Frank Li
I would like to thank the help from the following friends: Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Duncan Anker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Roman Neuhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for solving the memory limit problem. Thanks very much! Sincerely, Frank

Re: Increase memory limit ?

2003-01-20 Thread Frank Li
From: Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hmm. Are you certain: 12-sec# dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/cache/bar bs=1024k count=64 64+0 records in 64+0 records out 67108864 bytes transferred in 18.790176 secs (3571487 bytes/sec) 13-sec# ls -l /var/cache/bar -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 67108864 Jan 16 22:44

Re: Increase memory limit ?

2003-01-17 Thread Roman Neuhauser
put your replies *below* the text you reply to. most questions@ subscribers are used to reading from top to bottom, from left to right. # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-15 22:02:49 -0600: > >32-bit systems implementing VM typically could increase user-mode address > >space up to 2 GB, al

Re: Increase memory limit ?

2003-01-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Frank Li wrote: [ ... ] Cool! I created an additional swapfile according to its instruction. Everything is smooth. Just one thing not quite understood. # dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swap0 bs=1024k count=64 It actually created a 64GB swapfile. Hmm. Are you certain: 12-sec# dd if=/dev/zero of=/

Re: Increase memory limit ?

2003-01-16 Thread Frank Li
Hi, Duncan, Thanks for your help! From: Duncan Anker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yes, 2G - 1 is the maximum size a signed int can hold ... mind you, any program needing more that 2G of memory really should be implementing on-disk storage of data for itself. Thanks for your suggestion. In this case I

Re: Increase memory limit ?

2003-01-16 Thread Duncan Anker
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 12:08, Frank Li wrote: > Thanks for all of your replies, > > Now I can do it through recompiling the kernel and the limits did increase. > I haven't tried whether it can increase over 2G (I would love that if it > can!). The code I used cannot be easily changed to reduce

Re: Increase memory limit ?

2003-01-16 Thread Frank Li
Thanks for all of your replies, Now I can do it through recompiling the kernel and the limits did increase. I haven't tried whether it can increase over 2G (I would love that if it can!). The code I used cannot be easily changed to reduce memory consumption but I think 2G would probably be en

Re: Increase memory limit ?

2003-01-16 Thread Duncan Anker
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 07:59, Frank Li wrote: > Thanks, Roman, > > > > >options MAXDSIZ="(256*1024*1024)" > > > >options MAXSSIZ="(256*1024*1024)" > > > >options DFLDSIZ="(256*1024*1024)" > > > > > > > >Depending on what you're doing, you might well find using a 64-bit > > >

Re: Increase memory limit ?

2003-01-16 Thread Frank Li
Thanks, Roman, > >options MAXDSIZ="(256*1024*1024)" > >options MAXSSIZ="(256*1024*1024)" > >options DFLDSIZ="(256*1024*1024)" > > > >Depending on what you're doing, you might well find using a 64-bit > >platform (Alpha hardware? Solaris on SPARC?) to be more appropriate..

Re: Increase memory limit ?

2003-01-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
Frank Li wrote: [ ... ] Should I add more physical memory (if so should I reinstll OS)? If you're actually doing something where the 512 MB datasize limit matters to you, adding more physical memory will almost certainly speed things up. No, don't reinstall; even Windows doesn't make you reins

Re: Increase memory limit ?

2003-01-15 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 15 January 2003 at 21:54:54 -0600, Frank Li wrote: > Thanks, Greg, > >> From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Top shows: >>> Mem: 180M Active, 21M Inact, 32M Wired, 13M Cache, 35M Buf, 656K Free >> >> This shows that you have much more than 128 MB of memory in the >> machi

Re: Increase memory limit ?

2003-01-15 Thread Frank Li
Thanks, Chuck, Which file should I put in the following ? Frank 32-bit systems implementing VM typically could increase user-mode address space up to 2 GB, although variants on that and other things (ie, where devices get mapped into memory) make that only an approximation. For FreeBSD: # C

Re: Increase memory limit ?

2003-01-15 Thread Frank Li
Thanks, Greg, From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Top shows: > Mem: 180M Active, 21M Inact, 32M Wired, 13M Cache, 35M Buf, 656K Free This shows that you have much more than 128 MB of memory in the machine. I checked it again (by rebooting it and seeing its booting messages, stupid

Re: Increase memory limit ?

2003-01-15 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 15 January 2003 at 18:36:31 -0600, Frank Li wrote: > The situation is as follows: > > Physical memory is 128M, OS is FreeBSD 4.4. > My C++ simulation code mallocs large amount of memory. When running, I > found "top" shows SIZE is 514M, RES is 176M. That's rather difficult on a mach

Increase memory limit ?

2003-01-15 Thread Frank Li
The situation is as follows: Physical memory is 128M, OS is FreeBSD 4.4. My C++ simulation code mallocs large amount of memory. When running, I found "top" shows SIZE is 514M, RES is 176M. Then the code dumpped a core. The code itself should have no problem. It's not complicated and it runs v