From: ajake@mits.mdata.fi (Jarkko Aitti) Subject: Re: Can't get LP-Mud 3.1.2 to work well under Linux... Date: 8 Nov 1992 13:58:33 GMT
In article <ins295b.721187186@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> ins295b@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Humphrey) writes:
>aviz@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Dr Algirdas Avizienis) writes:
>
>>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 :)
>
>Ummm, has anyone else noticed this behaviour? And if so is anyone
>looking into it?
>
>--
>Andrew Humphrey
>ins295b@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au
>ins295b@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au
>humpy@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
>
>"And on the seventh day He created Linux"
Hmmm, and i should have asked same questions before to save myself from lots
of headache and 1001 driver re-compilation:)
I also tried different mallocs and also without gcc's internal..and got
got exactly same problems (well, with my 4 megs and 8 megs swap it only runs
ab. 2 minutes)
So, i'm crossposting this also to linux group if there's someone who could
help. (hmm, it's allready a crosspost;-)
I'm using cdlib driver and mudlib, which is a bit different (not much), and
i wonder should they work together at all, there is lots of bugs in mudlib
and i wonder that if there is someone who has patched his to get it running
like it should..(first one (which was easy to fix) was wrong name to some
STATUE_WHEN_LINKDEAD or something, but there's lot more of them)