Re: Shared Memory Allocation

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From: Ran Yakir (rany++at++rtset.co.il)
Date: 11/21/2000 09:54:02


Hi,

Please go to http://rtset.co.il/rany/index.html and into the
'downloads' section, for an explaination about why this happens, and a
solution

Ran

Nassouh Chehayeb wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My application need to set the size of the shared arena to more than 700Mb
> I tried to use performer environment variables like this:
>
> export PFNFYLEVEL=7
> export PFSHAREDSIZE=800000000
>
> perfly esprit.flt
>
> I've got the following message:
>
>
> 25085 PF Notice(2): level Internal Debug (7) set by environment
> variable PFNFYLEVEL
> 25085 PF Info: PFSHAREDSIZE overriding size to 781250.00
> KBytes
> 25085 PF Info/SysErr(12): pfInitArenas() Could not mmap /dev/zero for
> size 0x2faf0800 bytes at 0x0
> 25085 PF Info/SysErr: pfInitArenas() Could not create shared arena
> of 781250.00 KB; adjusting to 390625.00 KB
> 25085 PF Debug/Resource: pfInitArenas() Allocated 390625KB:
> 0x42f34000 - 0x5acac400
> ....
>
> So I thought that I don't have enough memory in the swap space
> I tried to use the PFTMPDIR like this:
>
> export PFTMPDIR=/user/tmp2
> but I´ve got similar message.
>
> 24038 PF Notice(2): level Internal Debug (7) set by environment
> variable PFNFYLEVEL
> 24038 PF Info: PFSHAREDSIZE overriding size to 781250.00
> KBytes
> 24038 PF Info/SysErr(12): pfInitArenas() Could not mmap
> /usr/tmp2/pfShmemFile.a005ra for size 0x2faf0800 bytes at 0x0
> 24038 PF Info/SysErr: pfInitArenas() Could not create shared arena
> of 781250.00 KB; adjusting to 390625.00 KB
> 24038 PF Debug/Resource: pfInitArenas() Allocated 390625KB:
> 0x42f34000 - 0x5acac400
> .....
>
>
> the command 'df -k' give the following results:
>
> Filesystem Type kbytes use avail %use Mounted on
> /dev/root xfs 8360424 6421448 1938976 77 /
> /dev/dsk/dks0d3s7 xfs 8884712 8576732 307980 97 /USERS
> /dev/dsk/dks6d3s2 xfs 8884712 4671032 4213680 53 /usr/people/pam
> /dev/xlv/xlvdemos xfs 17773424 16023956 1749468 91 /usr/demos
> /dev/xlv/xlvcodigo xfs 17773424 13904220 3869204 79 /usr/codigo
> /dev/xlv/xlvstrip xfs 35554880 30603388 4951492 87 /STRIP
> /dev/dsk/dks7d5s7 xfs 8884712 5120080 3764632 58 /usr/tmp2
> chip:/datos1 nfs 17775472 17472312 303160 99 /datos1
> chop:/datos2 nfs 17775472 17163344 612128 97 /datos2
>
> the 'swap -ln' command give the following results:
>
> # path pri pswap free maxswap vswap
> 3 /STRIP/swap/swap1 2 1.95g 1.95g 1.95g 0.00k
> 4 /.swap.virtual 2 0.00k 0.00k 0.00k 11.42g
> 2 /dev/dsk/dks7d6s1 1 8.48g 8.48g 8.48g 0.00k
> 1 /dev/swap 0 512.00m 512.00m 512.00m 0.00k
>
>
> Is there any solution for this problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nassouh
>
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