Kstars crashing

[Wolfgang Reissenberger]

>> On the console, I found the following messages repeatedly:
>> system: Cannot allocate memory
>> /home/wolfgang/sterne-jaeger/git/stellarsolver/stellarsolver/astrometry/util/fitsbin.c:541:read_chunk: Couldn't mmap file "/home/wolfgang/.local/share/kstars/astrometry/index-4107.fits???
> 
> Looks like we have a memory leak of some sort that eventually prevented astrometry to not be able to mmap.
> Do you have a system monitoring tool in your network that monitors this system ? Something like Check_mk or Nagios ?
> That would be able to plot the system memory usage over time showing if this is the problem cause or not.

Hi Hans,
It does not look like a memory leak, the memory available for the astrometry files is varying, but not decreasing:

[2021-03-29T22:54:24.688 files: 0.331119 GB, Installed RAM: 1.82278 GB, Free RAM: 0.130745 GB"
[2021-03-29T23:46:07.007 files: 0.331119 GB, Installed RAM: 1.82278 GB, Free RAM: 0.0687065 GB"
[2021-03-29T23:46:21.877 files: 0.331119 GB, Installed RAM: 1.82278 GB, Free RAM: 0.0844727 GB"
[2021-03-29T23:46:35.554 files: 0.331119 GB, Installed RAM: 1.82278 GB, Free RAM: 0.0829849 GB"
[2021-03-30T00:18:30.855 files: 0.331119 GB, Installed RAM: 1.82278 GB, Free RAM: 0.077877 GB"
[2021-03-30T00:18:45.781 files: 0.331119 GB, Installed RAM: 1.82278 GB, Free RAM: 0.0999527 GB"
[2021-03-30T00:46:05.644 files: 0.331119 GB, Installed RAM: 1.82278 GB, Free RAM: 0.39901 GB"
[2021-03-30T00:46:15.780 files: 0.331119 GB, Installed RAM: 1.82278 GB, Free RAM: 0.39677 GB"
[2021-03-30T00:46:25.865 files: 0.331119 GB, Installed RAM: 1.82278 GB, Free RAM: 0.422913 GB"
[2021-03-30T00:46:36.039 files: 0.331119 GB, Installed RAM: 1.82278 GB, Free RAM: 0.421783 GB"
[2021-03-30T00:46:46.260 files: 0.331119 GB, Installed RAM: 1.82278 GB, Free RAM: 0.414707 GB"
[2021-03-30T00:47:08.703 files: 0.331119 GB, Installed RAM: 1.82278 GB, Free RAM: 0.387627 GB"
[2021-03-30T00:47:23.227 files: 0.331119 GB, Installed RAM: 1.82278 GB, Free RAM: 0.386448 GB"
[2021-03-30T00:47:36.865 files: 0.331119 GB, Installed RAM: 1.82278 GB, Free RAM: 0.386677 GB"
[2021-03-30T04:55:15.817 files: 0.331119 GB, Installed RAM: 1.82278 GB, Free RAM: 0.082531 GB"
[2021-03-30T04:55:33.679 files: 0.331119 GB, Installed RAM: 1.82278 GB, Free RAM: 0.0816269 GB"
[2021-03-30T04:55:48.321 files: 0.331119 GB, Installed RAM: 1.82278 GB, Free RAM: 0.0801964 GB"
[2021-03-30T04:56:03.324 files: 0.331119 GB, Installed RAM: 1.82278 GB, Free RAM: 0.0941277 GB"
[2021-03-30T04:56:17.999 files: 0.331119 GB, Installed RAM: 1.82278 GB, Free RAM: 0.094841 GB"
[2021-03-30T04:56:32.893 files: 0.331119 GB, Installed RAM: 1.82278 GB, Free RAM: 0.0959511 GB"
[2021-03-30T05:40:18.960 files: 0.331119 GB, Installed RAM: 1.82278 GB, Free RAM: 0.0981407 GB"
[2021-03-30T05:40:38.128 files: 0.331119 GB, Installed RAM: 1.82278 GB, Free RAM: 0.101406 GB"

Wolfgang