Re: pbulk on AIX woes

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

On 25 April 2015 at 19:58, Sevan / Venture37 <venture37%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> On 25 April 2015 at 01:00, Sevan / Venture37 <venture37%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> On 24 April 2015 at 20:14, Sevan / Venture37 <venture37%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>>> bmake: don't know how to make pbulk-index. Stop
>>> pbulk-scan: realloc failed:
>>
>> which is from pkgsrc/pkgtools/pbulk/files/pbulk/lib/alloc.c
>>
>> void *
>> xrealloc(void *buf, size_t len)
>> {
>> void *ptr;
>>
>> if ((ptr = realloc(buf, len)) == NULL)
>> err(1, "realloc failed");
>> return ptr;
>> }
>
> Ok, so this is being attempted on a AIX 7.1 LPAR with 2GB of RAM &
> 2CPUs on a Power8 host. Indeed the system was running from a lack of
> memory, between the Tivoli Java process & RMC which are running by
> default on this IBM image there was less than 128MB free.
> RMC is the AIX Resource Management Controller.
> There's an advisory published regarding the issue
> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV51077
> I just stopped RMC & Tivoli which gave me around 500MB RAM free &
> fired up a bulkbuild.
> Scan stage failed at the same point with the same error, I was
> monitoring the status of free memory in nmon & when the failure
> happened, there was 352MB RAM free.
> The lowest the amount of free ram went to during the scan was 348MB.
>
> Sevan / Venture37

Maybe its a process memory limit ?
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_aix_61/com.ibm.aix.cmds5/ulimit.htm