On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 08:10:57PM +0100, Tom Fischer wrote:
>  --- log area: /dev/hda3, size 10M.
>  --- data area: /dev/hda6, size 315M.
> 
> Proceed, and wipe out old data? [y/n] y
> 
> LOG file has been initialized!

Ok, so initializing the RVM log worked fine.

> Rdsinit will initialize data and log.
> This takes a while.
> rvm_initialize succeeded.
> Going to initialize data file to zero, could take awhile.
> done.
> ?  ERROR: rds_zap_heap RVM_EINTERNAL.

But loading a 320MB file into VM didn't.

How much memory (real + swap) does your machine have? There could be a
limit for maximum amount of memory that your processes can allocate
(ulimit -a).

Jan