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

[Michael O'Dea]

Blair,

Top shows orca using 28megs at the max, right before it fails. This is on a dual 900mhz UltraIII sun 280r with 2gigs of memory 

last pid:  1312;  load averages:  1.08,  0.55,  0.33  18:52:21                                                                                        
1026 processes:595 sleeping, 1 running, 429 zombie, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 73.5% idle, 17.0% user,  9.5% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0% swap
Memory: 2048M real, 540M free, 2013M swap in use, 8240K swap free

Looks like swap usage ratcheted up insanely.... what disturbs me is that this is new as of today. I have restarted it numerous times since I installed it on this system & have never had this problem

-m


-----Original Message-----
From: Blair Zajac [mailto:blair at orcaware.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 6:39 PM
To: Michael O'Dea
Cc: orca-users at orcaware.com
Subject: Re: [Orca-users] Out of memory during request for 1016 bytes
error


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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