[Orca-users] Re: Memory Errors

[Blair Zajac]

bias16 wrote:
> 
> Has anyone figured out how to restrict memory usage that perl is
> using?

No, not yet.  Which version of Perl are you using?

There may be some ways to modify Orca to release more memory when it
has finished using it.  I've tried to do a good job on deleting hashes
and arrays when they are no longer needed, but may have missed some.

> 
> I got the following error message before a couple of my orca processes
> died about 4 days into running:
> 
> Out of memory during "large" request for 135168 bytes, total sbrk() is
> 791121200 bytes at /usr/local/orca/lib/Orca/ImageFile.pm line 318.
> 
> As indicated in earlier post, I am running everything in /tmp of a
> T1400 with 4Gig Memory, 2Gig swap, and 4 CPU's.  Orca files (rdd,
> html, orcallator) take up about 2Gig of space.
> 
> Has anyone had luck solving this problem but just start/kill the orca
> daemon script once a day?

That's the only method.

Best,
Blair
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