/* a fast and simple context switching library */
-/* Copyright (c) 2009-2015. The SimGrid Team.
- * All rights reserved. */
+/* Copyright (c) 2009-2017. The SimGrid Team. All rights reserved. */
/* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of the license (GNU LGPL) which comes with this package. */
#ifndef _WIN32
if (mprotect(stack, smx_context_guard_size, PROT_NONE) == -1) {
- xbt_die("Failed to protect stack: %s", strerror(errno));
- /* This is fatal. We are going to fail at some point when
- we tryi reusing this. */
+ xbt_die(
+ "Failed to protect stack: %s.\n"
+ "If you are running a lot of actors, you may be exceeding the amount of mappings allowed per process.\n"
+ "On Linux systems, change this value with sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=newvalue (default value: 65536)\n"
+ "Please see http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/simgrid/latest/doc/html/options.html#options_virt for more info.",
+ strerror(errno));
+ /* This is fatal. We are going to fail at some point when we try reusing this. */
}
#endif
stack = (char *)stack + smx_context_guard_size;