[Orca-users] Out of memory during request for 1016 bytes error

[Blair Zajac]

Michael O'Dea wrote:
> 
> Hello all
> 
> While orca is firing up and starting to read files I get this error:
> 
> Out of memory during request for 1016 bytes, total sbrk() is 27999536 bytes!
> 
> after about 150 lines of
> 
> /opt/orca-0.27b2/bin/orca: warning: cannot open `/opt/orca-0.27b2/orcallator/st-ivr/percol-2002-12-15' for reading: Too many open files
> /opt/orca-0.27b2/bin/orca: warning: cannot open `/opt/orca-0.27b2/orcallator/st-ivr/percol-2002-12-16' for reading: Too many open files
> /opt/orca-0.27b2/bin/orca: warning: cannot open `/opt/orca-0.27b2/orcallator/st-ivr/percol-2002-12-16' for reading: Too many open files
> /opt/orca-0.27b2/bin/orca: warning: cannot open `/opt/orca-0.27b2/orcallator/st-ivr/percol-2002-12-17' for reading: Too many open files
> 
> Now the "too many open files" error I have always gotten - but
> this "Out of memory" error is new.
> 
> Did I maybe reach some limit of rrd files that Orca can process?

I don't think the rrd is the problem.

Do you have top on your system?  If so, run it and see how much memory
Orca uses.

Also, I would handle the open file problem.  See question 2.3 in the
FAQ:

http://svn.orcaware.com:8000/repos/trunk/orca/FAQ

Best,
Blair

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