topic Re: Memory fault in Operating System - HP-UX

Memory fault

John Booth_1 — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 10:34:33 GMT

I am going through and clening up some of my logs. When I goto the samlog and more samlog to scan through it. I get to about 10% and I get a Memory fault and it stops. I cal vi the log and cat but more gives me memory faults, only on this log. Any suggestions.

Re: Memory fault

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 12:03:59 GMT

Hi John:

I'd be interested if you can 'cat' or 'vi' in the region of the file where 'more' faults. You could have a corrupt file and could trim it to a null size:

# cat /dev/null > /var/sam/log/samlog

...JRF...

Re: Memory fault

Mark van Hassel — Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:57:54 GMT

Hi John,

I noticed this "bug" just after HPUX 11 came out. Apparently the more command fails with an memory fault when it reads a particular character or set of characters. On 32 bits it just fails and on 64 bits it dumps core.

I have raised an issue with HP some years ago but it was never fixed.

Regards,
MvH

Re: Memory fault

Vincenzo Restuccia — Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:00:34 GMT

# > /var/sam/log/samlog