[plug] Memory Alloc error?

[Ben Jensz]

The machine is running kernel 2.2.19 (SMP capable, its a Dual PIII 500).

The machine also has 512Mb of RAM in it.  The machine is running Apache,
Postfix, Squid and Samba as its main tasks.

I mean I can compile libpcap and other stuff from source fine.  But
installing stuff from RPMs _should_ work.

These are the memory stats from top:

Mem:   517268K av,  514432K used,    2836K free,   69192K shrd,   39596K
buff
Swap:  787144K av,    1904K used,  785240K free                  356468K
cached

It was installing RPMs fine before, but now its coming up with errors.  I
haven't changed anything recently that would affect RPM operations.


/ Ben

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Scott" <simon.scott at flexiplan.com>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Memory Alloc error?


> Sounds like either
>
> a) your kernel is broken somehow - which kernel are you running?
> b) You have hardware problems that is causing a malloc to fail - or
> perhaps, quite literally, the malloc is failing due to not enough memory
> c) There is some broken version of rpm - but it looks like the
> malloc is failing, something beyond the application's control
>
> Are you running a swap partition?
>
> How much RAM have you got?
>
> What are you running on the box?
>
> What does 'top' say about memory?
>
>
>
>
> From: Ben Jensz <jensz at wn.com.au> on 18/09/2001 11:56 AM
> Please respond to plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
> cc:
>
> Subject: [plug] Memory Alloc error?
>
> Hey all,
>
> When I try to install the libpcap RPM, it comes up with this error:
>
> [root at dugong /root]# rpm -ivh libpcap-0.4-19.i386.rpm
> Preparing...                memory alloc (3663422781 bytes) returned
> NULL.
>
> This is on a Red Hat 6.2 system... the whole RPM system in general
> is acting
> really screwy at the moment on this system as well.
>
> Anyone got any thoughts?
>
> TIA
>
>
> / Ben
>
>
>
>
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