Re: Memory error while committing...

[Mark D. Baushke]

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James Depaul <address@hidden> writes:

> We are using CVS 1.11.17 (client/server) on AIX 5.3
> 
> I spoke with the server admin and he tells me that the OS is in good
> shape in case of heap size - see below. Do we need to specify some CVS
> admin parameters to increase the heap size that CVS is using on the
> system?
> 
> Could someone comment please - we are still getting the same error
> while commiting:
> cvs [commit aborted]: out of memory; can not reallocate 33894405 bytes
> 
> Here is the memory status on the box itself:
...elided...
> 
> Suggestions would be welcome.
...elided...

Hi James,

It is my recollection that under AIX, there are per-user limits as to
how much memory a single process may consume. It may be that the user(s)
running. You may wish to have your system admin look at
/etc/security/limits but my recollection was that 256MB was the maximum
possible for data and stack to grow.

I don't have easy access to an AIX 5.x box right now, but a FreeBSD 4.11
box I have around here has an /etc/login.conf file wherein there are
attributes for various classes of users as to the cputime, datasize,
stacksize, memoryuse, openfiles, vmemoryuse and other similar knobs.

So, I would need to ask you if the problem is that your user is running
into a problem with allocating an additional 32MB because that user is
running close the the per-user limits imposed by the defaults set by
your administrator.

        -- Mark
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