As a test, I did a count reset on a newsgroup, and my instance of trn was able to process about 1 million headers (unthreaded) without an issue. Patrick Vervoorn wrote: > On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Patrick Vervoorn wrote: > >> On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Patrick Vervoorn wrote: >> >>> which indeed led me to a Debian page, where some defines were moved around. >>> Did that, by hand, and a minute later I had a new trn compiled. I'm testing >>> it now, and it hasn't crashed yet with the 'glibc memory error <blabla>' >>> messages... *knock-on-wood* >> Well, it seems the problem isn't gone. Just got the error again, after using >> trn to read a group with about 1M of headers (non-threaded mode): >> >> *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x098be9f0 *** >> Aborted >> >> After which trn just quit. Is this a glibc error, or is this something trn >> has any control over? How do I proceed from this to trace this problem? > > Just got another, different glibc generated error in a smaller newsgroup > (100K articles): > > *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0813f568 *** > Aborted > > Is this possibly a hardware problem, memory perhaps damaged? (The machine > seems to be working OK otherwise.) > > I also googled this, and it seems to be some basic error checking of the > glibc library; I'll try to use valgrind to debug trn using this, because > the message above is a bit cryptic. Is there a way to get trn to provide > more details of when this happens? > > Regards, Patrick. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/
