[Orca-users] Re: Out of memory error

[prasadjlv at yahoo.com]

Blair,

I am using Perl 5.61.

I have not seen these errors on a box running Solaris 7.


--prasad


--- In orca-users at y..., Blair Zajac <blair at o...> wrote:
> Which version of Perl are you using?  Perl never gives memory back
to the OS.
>
> I try to make sure that Orca releases all references to objects
that contain
> memory, but this may not be done well enough, or there may be
circular
> references that never get cleaned up, or problems with Perl.  It's
hard
> to say.
>
> Does anybody know how to determine where Perl memory usage is tied
up?
>
> If you can restart Orca once a week or so, that would work great.
>
> Blair
>
> prasadjlv at y... wrote:
> >
> > Blair,
> >
> > I have been running Orca0.27b2 continuosly for about 2 weeks on a
Sun
> > E450 with 2 GB of RAM and 1 GB of swap. Also, Orca is monitoring
only
> > this machine.
> >
> > Orca stops running after it runs out of memory and I end up
manually
> > restarting it. Why does it need that much memory?
> >
> > Oh! one other thing, Orca is running on Solaris 2.5.1.
> >
> > --prasad
> >
> > --- In orca-users at y..., Blair Zajac <blair at o...> wrote:
> > > prasadjlv at y... wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Has any one seen this error:
> > > >
> > > > orca.log:Out of memory during "large" request for 266240
bytes,
> > total
> > > > sbrk() is 356677792 bytes
> > at /export/home/orca/lib/Orca/ImageFile.pm
> > > > line 318.
> > > >
> > > > I am running Orca0.27b2.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance,
> > > >
> > > > --prasad
> > >
> > > This looks like it ran out of memory when it was creating an PNG
> > image (if
> > > you look at where /export/home/orca/lib/Orca/ImageFile.pm is).
> > Also, it
> > > looks like it was using a ton of memory, 356677792 = 340 Mbytes.
> > >
> > > Was this a brand new Orca run or has it been running a while? 
Do
> > you keep
> > > Orca running continously?
> > >
> > > How many hostnames do you monitor?
> > >
> > > Blair
> > >
> > > --
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>
> --
> Blair Zajac <blair at o...> - Perl & sysadmin services for hire
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