Hi Tam, Martin, "Use the source, Luke!"
I couldn't find out which version of cpio Mandrake 7.1 uses, but it looks like its 2.4.2. Doing ``grep "memory exhausted" *.c'' there are two places the code might fail with this error message: as a result of either a malloc or a realloc failing. So the problem is genuinely running out of memory. On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Martin McCarthy wrote: > Do you have a limit on the amount of memory a process can use? > 'ulimit -v' should show you - or 'ulimit -a' if you prefer. This does look like the most likely cause. Cheers, Paul. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Particle Physics (Theory & Experimental) Groups Paul Millar Department of Physics and Astronomy [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Glasgow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/paulm +44 (0)141 330 4717 A54C A9FC 6A77 1664 2E4E 90E3 FFD2 704B BF0F 03E9 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
