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From: gpalmer@mutara.noc.webspan.net (Gary Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: odd INN behavior
Date: 21 Nov 1996 01:41:41 GMT
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In article <5709o2$r7h@itchy.serv.net>,
	zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont .) writes:
> I've been having INN behave oddly.

Firstly, which INN revision? inn 1.4 unoff 4 is the recommended one.

> Every so often, it will fail on a realloc() call, citing "cannot
> realloc x bytes). x is usually in the range of 5-20 megabytes. This
> has been increasing as of late, but the distressing thing is the
> allocation failure ; at the times that it happens, there is usually
> 200-300 megabytes of swap available on the system, and it's failing
> on 15M allocations?

Not personally, no, but I bet you are running into resource
limits. Try puting `ulimit -d unlimited' in whatever shell script you
use to start INN.

Gary