Hi Dennis Our SGE batch system is configured to limit user memory, It's set to 1GB, but as you said it seems that lfc-mkdir needs more... We will open a bug regarding this. Cheers and thanks Alvaro > Alvaro Simon Garcia schreef: > > Hi > > > We have found some diferences... > > > on WN > > #ulimit -a > > > virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited > > > with batch system: > > #ulimit -a > > virtual memory (kbytes, -v) 1048576 > > > our strace output: > [...] > > mmap2(NULL, 1073745920, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, > > -1, 0) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory) > [...] > > You've got all the evidence right there. Set ulimit of virtual memory to > the amount used by the batch system, this should result in the same error. > > I don't know who is responsible for trying to mmap over a GB of memory, > but I would consider that a bug ;-) > > Cheers, > > Dennis van Dok