[10892] in Athena Bugs
Re: Interesting problem with TechMail 2.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Curby)
Fri Sep 3 16:14:37 1993
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 93 16:15:32 EST
From: mlc@MIT.EDU (Mark Curby)
To: jdb@MIT.EDU (James D. Bruce)
Cc: techmail@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 93 15:28:13 EST
> From: jdb@MIT.EDU (James D. Bruce)
> Mark ---- Someday I will remember the name of the bugs list but
> not today. :-)
>
> A few moments ago TechMail 2.1 bombed out on me. Dialog box kindly
> informed me that TechMail 2.1 had quit because an error of Type 4 had
> occurred.
>
> This was not the first time this occurred. I get about one of these a
> day. Usually it says application "unknown" quit because of a Type 4
> error. However, it usually "looks like" TechMail was the culprit.
>
> Any suggestions???.................................................jim
Jim -
(you can send all bug reports to bugs@mit.edu)
A type 4 error is a divide by zero error, but why you would get a divide
by zero in TechMail I don't know. Probably memory is getting clobbered
and thus the error type is irrelevant.
I have not had other reports of this problem. I know that there are out
of memory cases which will cause TechMail to stop and aport itself (aka
quit, aka crash). So, one thing you can try is increasing the amount of
memory allocated to TechMail. If the problem is caused by running out
of memory this should reduce the frequency of the problem.
- Mark
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