27 Feb
2025
27 Feb
'25
7:43 a.m.
On 27 Feb 2025, at 03:28, babydr DBA James W. Laferriere <babydr(a)baby-dragons.com>
wrote:
cc1: out of memory allocating 135816 bytes after a
total of 796519376 bytes
That’s an “easy one”: you have to turn off the preallocation and run lazy memory
allocation.
“Digital UNIX has two paging modes, lazy and conservative. Conservative means that paging
space is allocated as memory is allocated, guaranteeing that there is always somewhere to
page to. This limits VM to the size of the paging partitions, but makes for a very robust
system. Lazy is more like what people are used to with Unix - paging space is allocated
when needed for paging out, you can run more jobs, but you're in big trouble when
everything fills up. By default, Digital UNIX comes up in the conservative mode. Removing
theswapdefaults file changes the system to lazy mode.”
Cheers,
Arrigo
(old OSF/1 hand since T1.0)