From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14252 invoked by alias); 9 Apr 2008 12:08:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 14244 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Apr 2008 12:08:54 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:08:25 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JjZ6C-00048U-5H for ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com; Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:08:20 +0000 Received: from 64.251.14.41 ([64.251.14.41]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:08:20 +0000 Received: from grante by 64.251.14.41 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:08:20 +0000 To: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com From: Grant Edwards Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:25:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <20080408202951.GH3552@lunn.ch> <47FCADB8.1000509@mlbassoc.com> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Linux) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: [ECOS] Re: "PANIC: zinit: Out of memory" when num sockets increased to 64 X-SW-Source: 2008-04/txt/msg00151.txt.bz2 On 2008-04-09, Gary Thomas wrote: >> Several other people seem to have tripped over this bug. IMO, >> the problem is that the default value takes the number of >> sockets into account, and the description claims that value is >> guaranteed to allow the network stack to start up. >> >> One presumes that the minimum value required for stack startup >> could be calculated at configure time based on the max number >> of sockets. Since that isn't being done, should I submit a >> patch that would change the description so that it doesn't say >> that it is? > > Or, better yet, improve the CDL so it behaves as folks expect :-) That would definitely be better. I presume if the formula for the required amount of memory were known somebody would have fixed the CDL already. Is it practical to figure out how much is required by statically examining the source code, or would it be simpler to just do it emperically/experimentally? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! ANN JILLIAN'S HAIR at makes LONI ANDERSON'S visi.com HAIR look like RICARDO MONTALBAN'S HAIR! -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss