[Zope] Re: MemoryError that brings my zope to its knees

[George Donnelly]

> This problem will happen and there will still be 1GB of free RAM and it 
> hasn't touched the swap at all.  We are running FreeBSD 4.10 on this box.

the kernel limits the amount of ram a process can bind by default.


try the following

put this in /boot/loader.conf


kern.maxdsiz="1610612736"
kern.dfldsiz="1610612736"
kerm.maxssiz="1610612736"

put the following into your kernel conf file, rebuild your kernel and 
reboot:


options         MAXDSIZ="(768*1024*1024)"
options         MAXSSIZ="(256*1024*1024)"
options         DFLDSIZ="(768*1024*1024)"


the values are examples only, you will need to play with them to find 
the right ones. keep in mind that the wrong ones, e if you put them too 
close to the amount of physical ram in the box could cause the box not 
to boot.

hth