Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!sgi!daveh@xtenk.asd.sgi.com From: daveh@xtenk.asd.sgi.com (David Higgen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: insufficient swap space ? Message-ID: <111626@sgi.sgi.com> Date: 19 Jun 91 22:19:49 GMT References: Sender: guest@sgi.sgi.com Distribution: comp Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 24 In article , iris@granny.engin.umich.edu (Yuval Roth) writes: > > A user on our machine is getting the following error message > when running a program of his (large image processing prog.): > > WARNING: Process [color] pid 8279 killed due to insufficient memory/swap. > > - Is there any way of painlessly modifying swap space configurations? > (I doubt it myself) If by any chance you have a disk or part of a disk not currently in use, you can add it as swap space. See swap(1M). If not, then it would be more painful as you suspect, since you'd need to remake filesystems. > - Is there any good advice I should give that user about what > should be looked for in the program which might cause this problem? A not uncommon source of this is an infinite recursion causing unbounded stack growth. Dave Higgen (daveh@xtenk.asd.sgi.com)