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On Nov  6 12:00, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> I just got an abort/out of memory error from tcsh.  I was sourcing a
> script to run telnet. Should I be worried about this?
> 
> tcsh current memory allocation:
> free:       0  102    7    5   11   26    8    3    0    2    1    1
>  1    1    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0
> 0    0    0
> used:       0   26  441  795  277  158  656   31   16   10    3    1
>  2    6    2    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0
> 0    0    0
>         Total in use: 1344512, total free: 148480
>         Allocated memory from 0x9a0000 to 0xffffffff.  Real top at 0xb0c800
> nbytes=65552: Out of memory
> Abort (core dumped)

That *might* indicate a Cygwin bug.  The tcsh memory allocation
is very sensitive to certain problems in Cygwin.  Please try a
recent Cygwin snapshot first: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

If it still fails, please try to create a *minimal* testcase tcsh script
which allows to reproduce the problem.


Corinna

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