From: ins295b@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Humphrey) Subject: Re: Can't get LP-Mud 3.1.2 to work well under Linux... Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 01:46:26 GMT
aviz@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Dr Algirdas Avizienis) writes:
>Hello there!
>I am using Linux 0.98pl3 w/TCP/IP compiled in on a 386/25
>with 8 megs of RAM. For the last few days i've been
>trying to get LPmud 3.1.2 to work, but to no avail.
>I usually get the message:
>dev_rint: dropping packets due to lack of memory
>and then I get the message:
>accept: out of memory
Yep, this happens because ( I think (I'm not a real kernel
hacker yet but I'm getting there)) failed accepts do not release inodes
correctly and hence the system runs out of inodes and you get a out of
memory error and then the mud gets grumpy and crashes. (Probably quite
understandably too :)
>Can someone PLEASE give me some advice? I
>am quite stuck.
Wait until the probs with the kernel are sorted out, then this
prob will just disappear.
Ummm, has anyone else noticed this behaviour? And if so is anyone
looking into it?