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From: [e-mail] (Dr Algirdas Avizienis)
Subject: Strange problem with LPmud and Linux 0.98.4
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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 15:18:27 GMT
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    Hello out there!  I'm having some strange problems getting
the latest version of CD-LPmud and CD-lib to work under Linux 0.98.4.
I've got the driver to compile fine, thats not the problem.  It seems
to run fine, but if I check memory usage by using free in another VC,
I find that the memory being used steadily goes up at the rate of
about 8k a minute, even when noones on the MUD!  This is rather
strange behavior, to say the least.  In 0.98.3, I'd get the bug that
accept() ran out of memory because of a failure to properly free inodes.
Could this be the same problem manifesting itself in a different way?
Or perhaps it is a problem with the smalloc.c that comes with it.

I am using the latest versions of both of the above, I ftp
ed them from ftp.cd.chalmers.se.

Can someone please give me some advice? I am pretty lost here..

Also,  not related, but I've been having considerable difficulty
getting some of the examples that come with the lib to work correctly.
The shop doesn't work at all, and the pub won't give me anything,
regardless of how much money I give myself in the money maker room.

Thanks.