On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Claudio Jeker  wrote:

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> Nope. That is not the problem. The main issues is that a full view will

> need a lot of memory for the sysctl. This memory needs to be available as

> real memory because it is wired into the kernel. If you run bgpd with full

> views on a box with less then 512MB of RAM you're most probably run out of

> memory. Theo and I had a look at this and bailing out in this situation is

> the right thing to do. The right fix is to just spend 50 bucks on 1-2GB

> of additional RAM.

Yuck.  For now, how about the following patch?
Index: sysctl.3

===================================================================

RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3,v

retrieving revision 1.181

diff -u -r1.181 sysctl.3

--- sysctl.3    30 May 2008 19:09:42 -0000      1.181

+++ sysctl.3    14 Jun 2008 03:26:26 -0000

@@ -2176,6 +2176,12 @@

 The length pointed to by

 .Fa oldlenp

 is too short to hold the requested value.

+.It Bq Er ENOMEM

+There isn't enough real memory available to pin the buffers specified by

+.Fa oldp

+and

+.Fa newp

+in the kernel.

 .It Bq Er ENOTDIR

 The

 .Fa name
Philip Guenther