Re: AIX: Terminated with fatal signal 11

[Larry Jones]

Gunturi Srimanth writes:
> 
> On an AIX box, cvs version 1.11.9 (server & client), I
> get the following problem. I have a huge file (~70MB)
> which checks out fine if i dont use pserver [cvs -d
> /path/to/repository co hugeFileDir] . But when i try
> to do the same thing with pserver, I get the signal 11
> exception. I was wondering if anyone could elaborate
> more on this behaviour, and suggest a way to make it
> work with the pserver.

Signal 11 usually means that you're running out of (virtual) memory. 
You either need to increase the amount of virtual memory on the server
system or increase the amount that's available to the pserver process. 
If you don't know how to do that, you need to talk to AIX people, not
CVS people.

-Larry Jones

All this was funny until she did the same thing to me. -- Calvin