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Re: ncftp dumps core in X after a day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Otto Hammersmith)
Thu Oct 31 15:49:36 1996
From: Otto Hammersmith <ohammers@cu-online.com>
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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 14:40:02 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961031153331.17761E-100000@pixel.harlequin.com> from "Stewart Allen" at Oct 31, 96 03:34:52 pm
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Do you have enough memory?
Type free the next time it happens, and make sure you have swap free.
I had a similar problem with latex and a couple other programs seg
faulting and core dumping, when I was totally out of memory. Bad
programs that don't check returns on malloc() tend to do that...
Stewart Allen wrote:
>
>
> Has anyone had ncftp mysteriously begin dropping core while in X?
> This seems to start happening if I leave X running for more than a
> day. Restarting X seems to fix it.
>
> -stewart-
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