Re: svn - cannot allocate mem

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 28 Sept 2023 at 05:01, John Klos <john%klos.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > ===> Extracting for asciidoc-10.2.0nb2
> > tar: _lwp_ctl: Cannot allocate memory
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > so... perhaps they were raised in the wrong place?
> >
> > Fine, I think... let's open another ssh session and it fails the same...
> > so it cannot be bound to the current shell.
> >
> > Maybe ssh? I still have trusty telnetd running.. telnet in, re-run. Same
> > issue! so it looks to be system-wide.
> >
> > No kernel dmesg.
> >
> > Again, a reboot fixed everything.
>
> Hmmm... I get the impression the system has exhausted certain resources
> and they're not getting returned.
>
> I do wonder about this:
>
> buf16k      16384    7241 1552     5864   875   530   345   345 1     1    0
>
> Any thoughts about why there were 1552 failures? I tend to get those when
> something runs out of memory, but invariably whatever ran out of memory is
> killed, and life goes on. Is something not dying on your system when it
> should?

I wouldn't expect it to help (but a negative data point can have some
use), but if it happens again could you try running shutdown to single
user, then booting up again and see if it is still present (a "clear
*everything* from userland and retry" test)

David