Re: superformat having problems allocating memory?

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

Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com> writes:

> 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).

Thanks for checking.  

It seems to have been a transitory problem with the floppy device
/dev/fd0.  Other programs began to encounter problems with it so I
rebooted.  This problem has not recurred.


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