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- From: ins295b@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Humphrey)
- Subject: Re: Can't get LP-Mud 3.1.2 to work well under Linux...
- Message-ID: <ins295b.721187186@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Keywords: Linux LPmud Memory
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <1992Nov7.201150.29492@cs.ucla.edu>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 01:46:26 GMT
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- aviz@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Dr Algirdas Avizienis) writes:
-
- >Hello there!
-
- >I am using Linux 0.98pl3 w/TCP/IP compiled in on a 386/25
- >with 8 megs of RAM. For the last few days i've been
- >trying to get LPmud 3.1.2 to work, but to no avail.
-
- >I usually get the message:
- >dev_rint: dropping packets due to lack of memory
- >and then I get the message:
- >accept: out of memory
- Yep, this happens because ( I think (I'm not a real kernel
- hacker yet but I'm getting there)) failed accepts do not release inodes
- correctly and hence the system runs out of inodes and you get a out of
- memory error and then the mud gets grumpy and crashes. (Probably quite
- understandably too :)
-
- >Can someone PLEASE give me some advice? I
- >am quite stuck.
-
- Wait until the probs with the kernel are sorted out, then this
- prob will just disappear.
-
- Ummm, has anyone else noticed this behaviour? And if so is anyone
- looking into it?
-
- --
- Andrew Humphrey
- ins295b@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au
- ins295b@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au
- humpy@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
-
- "And on the seventh day He created Linux"
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