Re: IRC-Problem

[Diane Bruce <db@xxxxxx>]

Kurt Roeckx says:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 10:21:16PM -0400, Christophe Kalt wrote:
> > On Apr 03, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > | 
> > | "Buffer allocation error for %s" is generated when valloc (malloc) returns
> > | NULL. This means that either you're out of ram, or malloc doesn't know how
> > | to alloc more. You should probably check your OS's manual.
> > 
> > actually, this isn't quite true.
> > it is returned when the server runs out of dbufs.
...
> partially freed buffers gets reused faster.
> 
> I'll see if I can come up with something.
> 
> 
> Q
> 

  No. The original error he reported points to a problem in the OS
not the ircd. As I said, on BSD look for insufficent mbufs.
You can have all the dbufs in the world, but if there aren't enough
mbufs, its not going to help.

-Dianora

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