What does top report for total memory and what does it report for the mem
usage of the processes you are concerned with.
Ken
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cor van dijk [mailto:">cor.angela@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 1:56 AM
> To: ">ale@ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Segmentation faults with 128MB RAM
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> I upgraded my triple boot (Redhat6.0/Debian2.1/Windows95) Pentium
> from
> 48MB to 128MB. Each OS on its own drive. Redhat immediately found the
> 128MB, so did Windows. For Debian I inserted
> append="mem=128M"
> in its lilo.conf stanza; then Debian also found the 128MB. All systems
> boot fine and report the proper RAM size.
> My problems start when I run things like "cdrecord" which appears to
> lock certain areas of memory (with mlockall?) or "cdparanoia" or
> "cdrdao". After a few minutes running, these programs cause
> segmentation faults and complain about their buffers only partially
> filled. Both Debian and Redhat have this problem. With 48 MB RAM this
> never happened.
>
> If I force a limit of 64MB (with a line in lilo.conf) then the
> problem
> goes away. I can find nothing in the FAQ's or HOWTO's about problems
> like this. Can somebody please put me on a track to resolving this
> problem? Thanks a lot in advance!
>
> Cor van Dijk.
>
>
>
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