[Wien] Allocation error 494

[Dr. Sharat Chandra]

Dear Rebecca

If you are using the kernel version > 2.4, then you ask the 
administrator to turn on the large memory support  (upto 4GB) and large 
file support. Then I hope your problem might be solved.

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Rebecca Nicholls wrote:

> 
> hello everyone
> 
> I was wondering if anyone had ever had trouble with allocation
> errors on a 4G machine.  I sucessfully got a large job to start
> on a 2G machine, using 1.5G RAM and 1G swap.  When I try to run
> this same job on a 4G machine, I get allocation errors.  It seems
> I'm having trouble using more than 2G out of the 4G of ram, and 
> the program is not using any swap.  
> 
> I've changed the stacksize to unlimited:
> 
> cputime         unlimited
> filesize        unlimited
> datasize        unlimited
> stacksize       unlimited
> coredumpsize    0 kbytes
> memoryuse       unlimited
> vmemoryuse      unlimited
> descriptors     1024
> memorylocked    unlimited
> maxproc         7168
> 
> The 2G machine is a dual-processor (although I was only running
> the job on one processor) Xeon 2.2Gz running red hat linux (kernel 
> 2.4.18-3smp).
> 
> The 4G machine is a pentium 4 running suse (kernal 2.4.21-260-smp4G).
> 
> Thanks a lot
> Best wishes
> 
> Rebecca
>