Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 10:49:48 +0000 From: James Raynard <fbugs@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: "Joseph I. Davida" <jd@alumni.cs.uwm.edu> Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: trn3.6 Message-ID: <19980315104948.10511@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199803150125.TAA02031@alumni.cs.uwm.edu>; from Joseph I. Davida on Sat, Mar 14, 1998 at 07:25:12PM -0600 References: <199803150125.TAA02031@alumni.cs.uwm.edu>
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On Sat, Mar 14, 1998 at 07:25:12PM -0600, Joseph I. Davida wrote: > I have not been able to send email to the author of > trn, so I am resorting to the bugs@freebsd.org. Please note that ports such as trn are not part of the base FreeBSD system and as such are not supported by the FreeBSD developers. If you can't reach the author by email, I would suggest posting to news.software.readers (or whatever it's called - I don't have a full spool to check). However, this doesn't appear to be a trn problem: > ****** 107423 unread articles in misc.jobs.offered -- read now? [ynq] util.c:safemalloc():Failed to malloc 196577680 bytes > trn: out of memory! > > Why trn attempts to malloc this many bytes is not > known :) 196577680/107423 = 1829 bytes per article, which sounds perfectly reasonable. I suspect that your shell's datasize limit is too low to permit this much memory to be allocated by a process (assuming you have that much virtual memory to begin with, of course!). If you can't set the shell's limit to a suitable value, using the command 'limit datasize <size>', the problem may be the limits for your login class - the defaults are rather low for a single-user workstation. 'man 5 login.conf' for details. James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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