"dbz.c: Can't malloc" during expire

[Alex Kiernan]

Elizabeth Zaenger <liz at eecs.umich.edu> writes:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm running inn-2.3.2, and I built it with these configurations:
> 
> ./configure  --with-perl --with-sendmail=/usr/sbin/sendmail --with-etc-dir=/ne
> ws/etc --with-largefiles --prefix=/news
> 
> I'm using cnfs (all files less than 2G), and running on FreBSD 4.3.
> 
> My history file has now grown to 2.6 G, and I'm getting malloc errors on
> expire:
> 
> expireover start Mon Apr  1 09:59:33 EST 2002: ( -z/news/log/expire.rm -Z/news/log/expire.lowmark)
> expireover end Mon Apr  1 12:09:54 EST 2002
> lowmarkrenumber begin Mon Apr  1 12:09:54 EST 2002: (/news/log/expire.lowmark)
> lowmarkrenumber end Mon Apr  1 12:09:54 EST 2002
> expire begin Mon Apr  1 12:10:24 EST 2002: (-v1)
>     dbz.c:1283 Can't malloc 259001196 bytes: Cannot allocate memoryexpire end Mon Apr  1 12:10:27 EST 2002

You ran out of memory when the history hash spilled from one table to
two (or from two to three etc.).

>         all done Mon Apr  1 12:10:27 EST 2002
> 
> 
> I have a slave system with a history file of 2.2G that is not failing on 
> expire. I thought "with-largefiles" was supposed to fix all this?  Or is it 
> something else?
> 

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Alex Kiernan, Principal Engineer, Development, Thus PLC