Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!aplcen!haven!udel!princeton!phoenix!gauss!ams From: ams@gauss.Princeton.EDU (Andrew Simms) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips Subject: The latest in high information content error messages Keywords: Warning: Message-ID: <12005@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 7 Dec 89 01:49:07 GMT Sender: news@phoenix.Princeton.EDU Reply-To: ams@gauss.Princeton.EDU (Andrew Simms) Followup-To: comp.sys.mips Organization: Princeton University Lines: 27 During moments of low memory availability, I get this message on my system console (of my m/120): WARNING: And that's is all I get, just the string "WARNING:". Does anyone know what this means? I have thought of many possible next lines for this message, perhaps one of them is really true: Insufficient memory to allocate string space for error text. Syslog: temporarily mapping /dev/console --> /dev/null /dev/console: Device full unix.local: Just kidding... bus error: Need more ram at 4.38x market price. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Simms ams@acm.princeton.edu System Administrator Program in Applied and Computational Math Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 609/258-5324 or 609/258-6227 609/258-1054 (fax)