Subject: pine 3.95, fetchmail 3.0 and Linux 2.0.28 - "Out of free storage"

From: Lou Rinaldi <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 17:18:13 -0500

today, out of the clear blue, I got this error message from pine:

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Problem detected: "Out of free storage".
Pine Exiting.
--

doing a df reveals that there is indeed more than enough disk space.

And the error message only comes up when I am running fetchmail in
daemon mode! (with the -d switch).

what could cause this?? has anyone seen this happen before?

/Valg

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From: Peter Karlsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 00:45:03 +0100

On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Lou Rinaldi wrote:

> what could cause this?? 

It generally means that the program is out of memory.

> has anyone seen this happen before?

Several times, but only with the DOS version of Pine (it comes up after
having it run for a while, I think there is a memory leakage somewhere, or
something like that). I've never gotten that error message with any other
version I used (Win3, WinNT, Linux, Sun).

\\//
Peter - http://nafmo.home.ml.org/