zonec fails on fairly large zone

NSD
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Hi,

I have just started with nsd. I attempted to create a database of the
net zone, after a couple of minutes I get:

zonec: malloc failed: Cannot allocate memory

The zone file is this large:
% wc net.zone
9533163 28599507 314469843 net.zone

The machine has a couple of gigs of RAM. The malloc seems to occur soon
after the process size reaches 500 megs. There is still well over a gig
of free memory.

Any ideas what could be causing this?

thanks,
-joe

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[Quoting Joseph McDonald, on Dec 4, 3:52, in "zonec fails on fairl ..."]
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zonec: malloc failed: Cannot allocate memory

..

The machine has a couple of gigs of RAM. The malloc seems to occur soon
after the process size reaches 500 megs. There is still well over a gig
of free memory.

You don't tell what system you use, but you might look at:

1. user limits (type "limit" in the cshs or tcsh)
2. if you use FreeBSD, check "options MAXDSIZ" in your kernel config.

Regards,
-- ted

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a message of 25 lines which said:

zonec: malloc failed: Cannot allocate memory

On a Tru64 machine:

NSDSIZE=`rcmgr get NSD_SIZE`
# nsd is greedy
ulimit -d ${NSDSIZE}

With (see /etc/rc.config):

ns2:~ % rcmgr get NSD_SIZE
1024000

And for the compiler:

NSDSIZE=`rcmgr get NSD_SIZE`
# zonec is greedy
ulimit -d ${NSDSIZE}