Re: memory allocation error

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

With no information provided about the hosts, it is hard for me to think of
anything except the obvious possibilities:

        1. There are more processes running on the box than you think.

        2. Something that is running has a memory leak.

        3. Something is wrong with memory detection in the BIOS or the
kernel, causing Linux to think the host has very little memory.

Since you are .nz and the box is .au, I assume you can't just pop over and
login at the console. But can someone local do that to check the host?

At 01:29 PM 5/23/00 +1200, zdrysdal@diagnostic.co.nz wrote:

>i have just recently tried to telnet into one of my new slink 2.0.36 boxes
>and it comes back with the following error :
>
>Trying 10.42.215.136...
>Connected to chameleon.diag.co.au
>Escape character is '^]'.
>telnetd: fork: Cannot allocate memory
>.
>Connection closed by foreign host.
>
>i can connect via ftp but when i do a "ls -l" i get :
>
>ftp> ls -l
>200 PORT command successful.
>550 /bin/ls: Cannot allocate memory.
>
>there is practically nothing running on the box so i do not know as to why
>this sudden memory allocation would come up??

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Ray Olszewski                                        -- Han Solo
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