Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:29:55 -0500 (EST) From: "Jerry Bell" <jbell@stelesys.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: large core file from more Message-ID: <1271.209.134.164.137.1104341395.squirrel@209.134.164.137>
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Earlier today, I was trying to look at a session file created by squirrelmail. I did a "more <filename>". It put up one page of the file, but when I tried to scroll down, it gave the error message: more in malloc(): error: allocation failed Abort (core dumped) I logged in on a new session and killed the process (had to use -9). What is left is a 537038848 byte core file. Mind you, the file I was running more on is 896656 bytes. I've never seen anything like this, and the system has been working fine for months. It's not a problem at all for me, but I figured it may be a symptom of a bigger problem. Here is the info on my system: FreeBSD web1.stelesys.com 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 #0: Mon Aug 30 11:48:25 EDT 2004 jerry@web1.stelesys.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Any ideas what could have happened? Jerry http://www.syslog.org
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