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buffer size requested is too large

Piyush S — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:35:40 GMT

Hi All

I have a small problem. I have a C8000 W/S with CAE applications installed. In one of the application, when i try to run a command on a 300-500 MB file which will convert into another format, i get the error "The buffer size requested is too large."

Can anybody let me know whether this can be solved by changing any Kernel parameter.

Thanks & Regards
Piyush

Re: buffer size requested is too large

Dennis Handly — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:51:43 GMT

Unfortunately you would have to know who is producing that message and what you need to do when you get it. It could mean that it tries to malloc a big bufffer and can't get it. Here you might be able to solve it by making maxdsiz bigger.

It would have been nice if the message had the size that was too big if a fixed limit, what that was too.

Re: buffer size requested is too large

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:58:13 GMT

Shalom Piyush,

That error message is from the application, not the system. The application vendor is going to need to tell you the proper response.

You are probably short of memory, but I can't make a good recommendation without input from the app vendor.

SEP

Re: buffer size requested is too large

Emil Velez — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:19:33 GMT

probably the item is coming based on the kernel parameter maxdsize or shmmax

Check those values and check the application documentation whether it recommends these parameters get bumpsed up.

Good luck

Re: buffer size requested is too large

Piyush S — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:22:38 GMT

I dont think that there is a memory shortage as i have 4 GB of RAM and 4 GB of swap space available. And much of that is free when this error occured

Regds
Piyush

Re: buffer size requested is too large

Dennis Handly — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:39:55 GMT

>I dont think that there is a memory shortage as i have 4 GB

Unless this is a 64 bit application or linked with -N, a process can only use 1 Gb.

Re: buffer size requested is too large

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:39:02 GMT

UNIX doesn't care how much physical memory you have; it only cares about how much virtual memory you have. You could very easily be hitting a maxdsiz limit. What is the current value of maxdsiz?

Re: buffer size requested is too large

Eric Antunes — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:07:41 GMT

Hi,

To check on those previously refered kernel parameters, do as root:

#kmtune -lq maxdsize
#kmtune -lq shmmax

Eric

Re: buffer size requested is too large

Dennis Handly — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:18:10 GMT

>#kmtune -lq maxdsize

It helps if you spell it correctly, maxdsiz. :-)
And use kctune on 11.23.

Re: buffer size requested is too large

Piyush S — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:09:31 GMT

Hi the output of the above command is as below

# kmtune -lq maxdsiz
Parameter: maxdsiz
Current: 3221225472
Planned: 3221225472
Default: 0x10000000
Minimum: -
Module: -
Version: -
Dynamic: No
# kmtune -lq shmmax
Parameter: shmmax
Current: 2147483648
Planned: 2147483648
Default: 0X4000000
Minimum: -
Module: -
Version: -
Dynamic: Yes
#

Thanks

Re: buffer size requested is too large

Eric Antunes — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:40:17 GMT

Hi Piyush,

Those kernel parameters seems large enought. What about shmmax?

Also, what is the server's memory ("swapinfo -tm"), is it enought?

PS: thanks Dennis ;)

Eric

Re: buffer size requested is too large

Piyush S — Wed, 09 May 2007 10:55:52 GMT

# swapinfo -tm
Mb Mb Mb PCT START/ Mb
TYPE AVAIL USED FREE USED LIMIT RESERVE PRI NAME
dev 4096 0 4096 0% 0 - 1 /dev/vg00/lvol2
reserve - 656 -656
memory 2883 866 2017 30%
total 6979 1522 5457 22% - 0 -
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