[Orca-users] Out of memory during request for 1016 bytes error

[Blair Zajac]

Michael O'Dea wrote:
> 
> I bumped the limits down:
> 
> bash-2.05$ ulimit -a
> core file size (blocks)     0
> data seg size (kbytes)      unlimited
> file size (blocks)          unlimited
> open files                  512
> pipe size (512 bytes)       10
> stack size (kbytes)         8192
> cpu time (seconds)          unlimited
> max user processes          29995
> virtual memory (kbytes)     51200
> 
> 512 open files -- it was 4096 before. I am still getting the errors

No, no, no!!!  Wrong way!!!  You want to raise the limits.

Try increasing your stack size, the pipe size and the virtual memory
to unlimited.

> 
> /opt/orca-0.27b2/bin/orca: warning: cannot open state file `/opt/orca-0.27b2/rrd/orcallator/orca.state.tmp' for writing: Too many open files
> 
> and now it doesnt seem to be writing anything useful. When the was the default
> of 4096 file descriptors the machine crawled to a halt and used 100% swap &
> othber processes started crapping out.
> 
> Also, the system shows about 75 bzip processes and 430 defunct processes under orca!

Which version of Orca are you using?

Best,
Blair

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