nsd users - Dec 2003 - zonec fails on fairly large zone

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

[Quoting Joseph McDonald, on Dec  4,  3:52, in "zonec fails on fairl
..."]
..
> 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

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 06:51:53PM -0800,
 Joseph McDonald <joe at vpop.net> wrote 
 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}