Re: Virtual memory exceeded in new

["Randa" <randa@comp.lancs.ac.uk>]

> Hello All,
> 	Thanks a lot for your reply. Lidia has figured out memory leak in original implementation of RTP. So, now I can run my simulations using 200 nodes.
> But again when I try to use 600 nodes and 550 Session/RTP Agents, I have 
> same virtual memory error. I have tried to look at all your offered solutions. 
> Command limit gives:
> cputime         unlimited
> filesize        unlimited
> datasize        2097148 kbytes
> stacksize       8192 kbytes
> coredumpsize    unlimited
> vmemoryuse      unlimited
> descriptors     64 
> 
> Also, I have done ps and pagesize commands while program is running. 
> But I have not tried to increase the swap area. I am working on ultra-10 SunOS 5.6. Does anyone know how to increase it?
> 
> Randa
> > 
> > On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 19:50:50 +0100, Lidia Yamamoto wrote: 
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >In fact I had a similar problem, and I found out that there was no "free" for the RTP/RTCP packets. I solved it like this:
> > >
> > >session-rtp.cc:
> > >void RTPSession::recv(Packet* p, Handler*)
> > >{
> > >...
> > >Packet::free(p);
> > >}
> > >
> > >void RTPSession::recv_ctrl(Packet* p)
> > >{
> > >...
> > > Packet::free(p);
> > >}
> > >
> > >It *greatly* improved performance and memory usage since then!
> > >I imagine next release will fix this.
> > 
> > This looks like a pretty severe memory leak (for people using those
> > services).  It's now fixed.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >    -John Heidemann
> > 
> 
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