[darcs-users] Re: Limits of Darcs (the whole Linux kernel?)

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Fri Nov 5 10:21:50 UTC 2004


On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 09:16:06AM +0100,
 Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote 
 a message of 30 lines which said:

> zsh: killed     darcs record --all

Here is a possible explanation, taken from "dmesg":

Free pages:        1888kB (0kB HighMem)
Active:14483 inactive:14542 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:236 slab:1382 ma      pped:29011 pagetables:492
DMA free:1888kB min:504kB low:1008kB high:1512kB active:115864kB inactive:116336      kB present:254776kB
protections[]: 126 126 126
Normal free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB
protections[]: 0 0 0
HighMem free:0kB min:256kB low:512kB high:768kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:      0kB
protections[]: 0 0 0
DMA: 112*8kB 4*16kB 1*32kB 2*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*40      96kB 0*8192kB = 1888kB
Normal: empty
HighMem: empty
Swap cache: add 671656, delete 671560, find 102527/164582, race 0+0
Out of Memory: Killed process 6145 (darcs).
Out of Memory: Killed process 6119 (darcs).

The box has 256 Mbytes of RAM plus 488 Mbytes of swap.

myriam:~/tmp % free     
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        256024     223296      32728          0      45872      79440
-/+ buffers/cache:      97984     158040
Swap:       488360      63968     424392




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