> On 9 Oct 1999, Julian Assange wrote:
> > > > "Fred Peeterman" <fred@terratec.de> writes: > > > I am running NNTPcache 2.3.3b4 on a DEBIAN distribution. > > > nntpcached runs fine for a while, but then the following > > > error occurs a number of times: > > > nmalloc.c:14: XMcalloc call from list.c:__LINE__ for 16 bytes failed > > > > Almost certainly you need to increase maxMmap in nntpcache.config > > ahhhh... so *that's* what 'bad juju' is ;-) Here's some more bad juju: Increased maxMmap from 16M to 24M: system reboot at around 9:30, than these messages follow: 10:05:20 nmalloc.c:25: XMcalloc call from list.c:__LINE__ for 100 bytes failed 10:33:54 nmalloc.c:25: XMcalloc call from list.c:__LINE__ for 100 bytes failed 11:43:52 nmalloc.c:25: XMcalloc call from list.c:__LINE__ for 100 bytes failed 12:32:00 nmalloc.c:25: XMcalloc call from list.c:__LINE__ for 100 bytes failed 13:39:53 nmalloc.c:25: XMcalloc call from list.c:__LINE__ for 100 bytes failed 13:55:31 nmalloc.c:25: XMcalloc call from list.c:__LINE__ for 100 bytes failed 14:33:59 nmalloc.c:25: XMcalloc call from list.c:__LINE__ for 100 bytes failed 15:37:02 nmalloc.c:25: XMcalloc call from list.c:__LINE__ for 100 bytes failed 16:06:16 nmalloc.c:25: XMcalloc call from list.c:__LINE__ for 100 bytes failed 09:00:02 nmalloc.c:25: XMcalloc call from list.c:__LINE__ for 100 bytes failed 10:28:43 nmalloc.c:14: XMcalloc call from xover.c:__LINE__ for 12 bytes failed 11:22:48 nmalloc.c:25: XMcalloc call from list.c:__LINE__ for 100 bytes failed 12:04:23 nmalloc.c:25:Interrupted system call: XMcalloc call from nntpcache.c:__LINE__ for 1 bytes
failed
11:00:10 nmalloc.c:25: XMcalloc call from list.c:__LINE__ for 100 bytes failed And now nntpcached is gone :-((( Only about 10 clients connect to the cache. News traffic is maybe 10kB aday.
One might believe this should not happen :-(( Any sugestions? Increase maxMmap more? Best regards, Fred Peeterman Systems Administrator ------------------------------------------------------------ TerraTec Electronic GmbH, Herrenpfad 38, 41334 Nettetal, Germany http://www.terratec.net mailto:fred@terratec.de These opinions are mine. They may be yours; they may be the company's. Then again, maybe not. ------------------------------------------------------------ |