Hi managers,
thanks to all who replied (Alan, Peter, Nikola). In short, the answer
is: no, virtual memory size of the kernel does not have anything to do
with my problem. Something else HAS necessarily changed. We are still
trying to find what...
Thanks,
Carmen
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Carmen San Martin, Ph. D.
The Wistar Institute Email: carmen_at_wistar.upenn.edu
3601 Spruce Street Phone: (215) 898-2202
Philadelphia, PA 19104 Fax: (215) 898-3868
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On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Carmen San Martin wrote:
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> Dear managers,
>
> I am trying to run a Fortran application in our Alphaserver 4100,
> OSF4.0D, with 1 Gb RAM and 3 Gb swap space. The application run fine on
> the same machine a couple of months ago, but now it crashes saying that it
> can not allocate enough memory from the heap (it needs 400 Mb). Since the
> application, the data, and the machine configuration and use load are the
> same as before, we are quite puzzled about this. Moreover, I have run
> another application that required 800 Mb and it run fine. I have run
> dxproctuner to try to see if there was anything weird going on, and the
> only thing weird I see is the kernel's virtual memory size is 658 Mb. Now,
> my question is: is this normal? Or, does it mean something is wrong? Could
> it have anything at all to do with our problem? We rebooted the machine
> and the 658 Mb are still there.
>
> Any advice appreciated,
>
> Carmen
>
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> Carmen San Martin, Ph. D.
> The Wistar Institute Email: carmen_at_wistar.upenn.edu
> 3601 Spruce Street Phone: (215) 898-2202
> Philadelphia, PA 19104 Fax: (215) 898-3868
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Received on Thu Feb 10 2000 - 17:07:30 NZDT