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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: INN problem
To: begonia@itchy.serv.net (Sonja Jo Krenz-Bush)
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 09:38:41 -0500 (CDT)
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> We've been having problems with inn just up and dying lately, ie, it just 
> stops running.  The only thing that shows up in the log files are error 
> messages like the ones below.   We tried upgrading to inn1.4unoff4 and 
> that hasn't seemed to help at all.  
> 
> Aug  8 13:56:51 brockman innd: ME cant remalloc 7430400 bytes Cannot 
> allocate memory
> Aug 13 19:04:41 brockman innd: ME cant remalloc 4374784 bytes Cannot 
> allocate memory
> Aug 14 04:41:04 brockman innd: ME cant remalloc 9429248 bytes Cannot 
> allocate memory
> 
> Has anybody had a problem like this, or have any idea whats going on?  

I've seen that for a long time.  Doing an "unlimit" before rc.news helps
the situation, but does not entirely fix it.

... JG