[Orca-users] Re: Memory Errors

[bias16]

Using Version 5.6.1 of Perl.

Re-starting the orca scripts once a day seems to be doing the trick.  
I just pkill -9 orca and then restart them all.  

I'm up to about 260 clients and it is working very well with 5-10 
minutes delay on graphs.

- Liston

--- In orca-users at y..., Blair Zajac <blair at o...> wrote:
> bias16 wrote:
> > 
> > Has anyone figured out how to restrict memory usage that perl is
> > using?
> 
> No, not yet.  Which version of Perl are you using?
> 
> There may be some ways to modify Orca to release more memory when it
> has finished using it.  I've tried to do a good job on deleting 
hashes
> and arrays when they are no longer needed, but may have missed some.
> 
> > 
> > I got the following error message before a couple of my orca 
processes
> > died about 4 days into running:
> > 
> > Out of memory during "large" request for 135168 bytes, total 
sbrk() is
> > 791121200 bytes at /usr/local/orca/lib/Orca/ImageFile.pm line 318.
> > 
> > As indicated in earlier post, I am running everything in /tmp of a
> > T1400 with 4Gig Memory, 2Gig swap, and 4 CPU's.  Orca files (rdd,
> > html, orcallator) take up about 2Gig of space.
> > 
> > Has anyone had luck solving this problem but just start/kill the 
orca
> > daemon script once a day?
> 
> That's the only method.
> 
> Best,
> Blair
> -- 
> Blair Zajac <blair at o...>
> Web and OS performance plots - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/