Re: Bizarre out of memory bug
Re: Bizarre out of memory bug
- Subject: Re: Bizarre out of memory bug
- From: Justin Walker <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 09:50:09 -0700
Wow.
On May 25, 2005, at 3:40, Tim Seufert wrote:
So I'm on my Powerbook (10.4.1), and SSH across the good old domestic
WLAN to my G5 (Also 10.4.1). I get behavior like this:
[mightygorilla:~] tas% ssh yobgorgle
Password:
Welcome to Darwin!
[yobgorgle:~] tas% ls
tcsh: Out of memory.
Connection to yobgorgle closed.
[mightygorilla:~] tas%
Truly strange. Have you tried changing the hostname? :-}
This tugs at a few loose memory strands. I have a vague recollection
of similar behavior, perhaps with tcsh, having to do with something in
the "rc" files in users' home directories.
A couple of thoughts:
- did you also check the console log?
- have you tried logging into an account with 'bash' or 'sh'
as the default shell?
Bizarre thing #1: the G5 named "Yobgorgle" had roughly 2GB free RAM at
the time of this event. Physical memory certainly isn't a problem.
The only justification for the error in question is if some piece of
code tried to allocate more address space than the kernel was willing
to give a single process.
Bizarre thing #2: So, "yobgorgle" is really "yobgorgle.local" since I
have "local" in my search domains list. In other words, it's a
Ren^h^h^h Bonjour name. On a whim, I decided to SSH to the actual IP
address:
[snip]
Wow. I just don't know what to say.
Me too.
[snip]
Anybody have any suggestions before I file a bug?
Only to try to remove tcsh, or its startup files, from the picture.
This is a beaut.
Cheers,
Justin
--
Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon at Large
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