Re: superformat having problems allocating memory?
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).
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