[plug] Memory Alloc error?

[Graham, Alan A.]

Did you run Top while the rpm process was active?  Because it looks to me
like you've got a major memory leak in some other process.  2Mb free isn't a
lot on a 512Mb machine.  If rpm wan't running when you ran top, then have a
look at where all the memory is being used.

How long has this machine been up?  I hate to sound windoze'ish, but hav you
tried rpm after a reboot?  If it works, then I would suggest that points
again to a memory leak.

Alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ben Jensz [SMTP:jensz at wn.com.au]
> Sent:	Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:23 PM
> To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject:	Re: [plug] Memory Alloc error?
> 
> 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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