On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Judson Powers wrote: ->On Sat, Mar 28, 1998 9:03 PM, C^2 <mailto:wicked@MAIL1.I1.NET> wrote: ->> I think it is a problem with the hardware/machine memory. My question is ->> this, could the mud be causing this, or is it a system problem? -> ->I'd have to say that the malloc error means you don't have enough memory. ->Either the system can't handle your mud, or there's an error in the code ->causing you to allocate too much memory. (For example, not deallocating it ->an losing the pointer, making a memory leak.) If you're running from a UNIX shell, you might want to check your memory quota. It's possible the sysadmin has placed a limitation on either users in general, or just on you (some admins just don't like 4MB+ of RAM disappearing to one user). In general, 'ulimit -a' will probably help (but, then again, it may not). -dak +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://democracy.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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