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

[Alex Kiernan]

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

> Hi Alex,
> 
> Thanks, but what does this mean?  Or rather, what's the fix?
> 

Larger ulimit, more swap, more physical RAM, move to 64 bit
architecure (probably in that order).

> (Someone suggested I needed more swap, but I can't see any evidence of
> that....)
> 
> > From: Alex Kiernan <alexk at demon.net>
> > 
> > Elizabeth Zaenger <liz at eecs.umich.edu> writes:
> > 
> > > 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.).
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Alex Kiernan, Principal Engineer, Development, Thus PLC
> > 
> > 

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Alex Kiernan, Principal Engineer, Development, Thus PLC