From: Steve Satterfield (steve++at++nist.gov)
Date: 01/07/2005 13:49:29
Thanks for the suggestion. I had already tried that.
With PFSHAREDBASE undefined I get the same problem.
With PFSHAREDBASE set to 0x10000000 or 0x30000000 it seems to cut the arena
size to roughly half of the requested size.
Again, the thing I don't understand is that with everyting being equal, the
application works on my Octane2 but not on the larger Onyx3 or Onyx4.
I am wondering where to look for the differnces between the desktop system and
the larger systems.
-Steve
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Jeroen Akershoek wrote:
> I've had similar problems recently. Try unsetting the PFSHAREDBASE or changing it
> to some other value. That did the trick for me
>
> Kind regards,
> Jeroen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-info-performer++at++performer.engr.sgi.com on behalf of Steve Satterfield
> Sent: Fri 1/7/2005 21:11
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> Cc: Steve Satterfield
> Subject: [info-performer] help with pfMemory and PFSHAREDSIZE
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to run a N32 Performer application on an Onyx4 but it fails with
> the pfMemory error:
>
> PF Fatal/Resource: pfMemory::new() Unable to allocate 59576 bytes from arena 0x20000000.
> Try using pfSharedArenaSize() or env PFSHAREDSIZE
> to increase the arena size
> (currently 976562.50 KBytes) and check for adequate setrlimit()
> values and available space on swap (or pfTmpDir()).
>
> When I run this application, I have
> PFSHAREDSIZE set to 1000000000
> PFSHAREDBASE set to 0x20000000
>
> The Onyx4 is 4 CPU/4GB memory running 6.5.24 and OpenGL Performer 3.1.1
>
> This same application will however run well on an Octane2 with 2 CPU/512Mbytes
> memory running 6.5.24 and OpenGL Performer 3.1.
>
> Additionally, this application also fails on an Onyx3 with 24CPU/24GB memory
> running 6.5.24 and OpenGL Performer 3.1.1. It also fails on a different 8
> CPU/8GB memory Onyx4.
>
> Since it runs on a desktop machine but not on larger machines, I assume there
> must be something configured differently about the larger machines.
>
> Can you give me any ideas on where to look for differences in the larger
> machines?
>
> I have compared the values of "systune shm". The larger machines have larger
> values. As a test, I changed the Onyx4 systune shm parameters to match the
> Octane systune shm values, but the application continues to fail.
>
> Thank you for any help you can provide.
>
> -Steve
>
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