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From: jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: malloc: not enough core
Keywords: df malloc core
Message-ID: <170@larry.sal.wisc.edu>
Date: 1 May 89 16:50:17 GMT
Organization: Space Astronomy Lab, Madison WI
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We are running Ultrix 3.0 on MicroVAX II's and VS2000's.  We
are seeing something new and unusual:  once in a while a user
will type "df", for example, and get the message "malloc: not
enough core".

We have seen this while running the News expire program, as
well as when running a large data analysis program.  What's the
deal here?  How can a virtual memory machine deny memory to
the puny df(1) program?
-- 
Jeff Percival (jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu)