RE: {bb} Error Message

[Chris Ricker <kaboom@gatech.edu>]

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 brent.mccrackin@bell.ca wrote:

> I've seen this happen when the sort command fails in the disk check
> processing.
>  
> This is usually indicative of sort not being able to allocate a large
> enough contiguous chunk of memory to run.  Depending on the OS version
> (this usually happens on Solaris in my experience) there may be a patch
> to fix the problem.  Check for a different version of sort that you can
> use, or look into why your system memory is fragmented to the point
> where large contiguous chunks are not available.

Switching to Gnu sort on Solaris fixes it there....

later,
chris
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