On 25 Jan 1998, Douglas Bates wrote: > I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from > the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but > I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate memory when > there is a lot of memory available. > bash-2.01$ superformat -d /dev/fd0 > Formatting cylinder 0, head 0 format: Cannot allocate memory > bash-2.01$ cat /proc/meminfo > total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: > Mem: 130924544 126173184 4751360 24453120 55037952 37212160 > Swap: 106921984 20480 106901504 > MemTotal: 127856 kB > MemFree: 4640 kB > MemShared: 23880 kB > Buffers: 53748 kB > Cached: 36340 kB > SwapTotal: 104416 kB > SwapFree: 104396 kB > > Am I misinterpreting that error message? > > I have the 5.2pl4-2 fdutils package installed, a 2.0.33 kernel, and > libc6 version 2.0.6-3 on a hamm system. > > Other programs don't seem to have problems with memory allocation. >
FWIW, I don't get this error (same packages installed). --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .