superformat having problems allocating memory?

[Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu>]

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.


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