On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Francois Pussault
<fpussa...@contactoffice.fr> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> here is my default memory setup :
>
> hw.machine=i386
> hw.model=Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8300 @ 2.40GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class)
> [..]
> hw.physmem=2136907776
> hw.usermem=2062499840
> hw.ncpufound=2
> hw.allowpowerdown=1
>
> top info :
> Memory: Real: 437M/956M act/tot Free: 1039M Cache: 376M Swap: 0K/2047M
>
> for some reasons, I don't know yet, some applications securely answer "Cannot
> allocate memory"
> until memory in Real decrease to about 300M/956M. (...even if I guess those
> applications are written with foot...this is strange).
>
> but I have 1039M free & some swap free so why that ?
>
> Is this range of memory protected or reserved to something ?
> Any method to force memory "Real" to be higher & have less Free memory in
> default should be a solution too..
ulimit -a
man login.conf
on i386 max 1GB/process (~700MB real memory/process) per design
check /var/log/messages for some uvm errors
>
> thanks
> Regards
