[news at ns2.nl2k.ab.ca: ns2.nl2k.ab.ca Daily Usenet report for Tue Mar 12 01:00:00 MST 2002]

[Alex Kiernan]

The Doctor <doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 05:32:05PM +0000, Alex Kiernan wrote:
> > 
> > The Doctor <doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> writes:
> > 
> > > Expiry problem.
> > > 
> > 
> > Out of memory.
> > 
> > > Renumbering active file.
> > > Expire messages:
> > > expire begin Tue Mar 12 01:01:56 MST 2002: (-v1
> > > -z/var/log/news/expire.rm)
> > >     failed to malloc 80000000 bytes at dbz.c line 1319: Cannot allocate
> > > memory
> > 
> > At a guess you spilled from one hash table to two.
> >
> 
> What is the solution?
>  

Add more memory/increase your VM/increase your data segment rlimit.

-- 
Alex Kiernan, Principal Engineer, Development, Thus PLC