[2064] in SIPB bug reports
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chew@hplhcid.hpl.hp.com)
Wed Aug 28 17:35:53 1991
To: antkam@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Aug 91 17:07:52 EDT."
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 91 14:33:22 PDT
From: chew@hplhcid.hpl.hp.com
Hi...
>
> on 8/28, from about 3pm to 5pm, i was using i-draw. at a particular
> stroke of a zig-zag line, the program died, the i-draw window vanished
> and the xterm spewed out a funny message...
>
> default_new_handler: out of memory... aaaiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeee!
> [1] Exit -1 idraw
>
> olc suggested me to report to you guys. i may be able to re-produce the
> error in the sense that i remember exactly what i am drawing at that
> very moment.
This error is caused by the workstation (or process) running out of
memory. If you can reproduce this, on an unloaded, uncomplicated
picture, I'd be interested in seeing it.
> some other info which may be relevant: my workstation is
> not running anything except olc and i-draw, i think.
I'm not positive this is correct. First of all, what workstation type
were you on? secondly, you likely were running other processes...
such as your window manager, the X server, any xterms.. also, were there
any processes left over from a previous user of that machine.
(sometimes processes are not killed properly, and they sit around eating
memory).
> my account
> (rather, the account from which i am running i-draw, which is
> ayoung@athena) is not near disk-quota: 883/2000.
>
quota is not the problem.
> if i can be of further help, please tell me.
>
> antkam
Again, if you can reproduce this reliably on an unloaded machine... if
you believe it's a bug, and not running out of memory, please let us
know, and provide a method for us to recreate the crash.
Thanks.
-Chee
