Error: cannot allocate memory

ion111 · 07-03-2004, 07:11 AM

I am on Linux kernel 2.4.20-xfs, Knoppix (Debian), XFree86, Fluxbox.

When I try to run gnumeric, I have the following problem :

Code:

>gnumeric
Fatal error : canot allocate memory

I have a similar error with gedit ??

Code:

>gedit
...
gedit: relocation error: gedit: udefined symbol: eel_input_event_box_new

I had to check my memory, so,

Code:

>cat /proc/meminfo

       total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  528338944 522436608  5902336        0 15572992 270766080
Swap: 699105280  2387968 696717312
MemTotal:       515956 kB
MemFree:          5764 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:         15208 kB
Cached:         262904 kB
SwapCached:       1516 kB
Active:         188308 kB
Inactive:       294316 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       515956 kB
LowFree:          5764 kB
SwapTotal:      682720 kB
SwapFree:       680388 kB

I have tried in another way too :

Code:

>top -b -n 1 | grep -E '^Mem|^Swap'

Mem:    515956k total,   509900k used,     6056k free,    15248k buffers
Swap:   682720k total,     2716k used,   680004k free,   261524k cached

I have two questions :

--> how do I see the amount of memory allocated to each program. I don't understand how I can have 509900k memory used

--> the error of gnumeric is because this memory problem ?

Thank you

mritch · 07-03-2004, 11:04 AM

this problem showed up at my last debian update too. i believe there is some sort of incompatiblity with the libs/programms since i had to mess 'round to get my gnome working right again. i have no solution yet, but there is no memory problem, i believe. a good prog for watching what's using how much memory is memstat (see man memstat for further details).

sl mritch.

foo_bar_foo · 07-03-2004, 01:09 PM

yea i think upgrade gedit and gnumeric
they must have gotten out of sync

ion111 · 07-03-2004, 01:45 PM

Ok thank you very much.

I have used memstat to see allocated memory, and I found something weard :

Code:

>memstat
3754312k: /dev/dri/card0 631

Any idea of what this might be ?

mritch · 07-03-2004, 02:54 PM

don't worry, that's allocated mem for your dri (direct rendering interface?) aka mem for you graphic card. also agp.

sl mritch.

ion111 · 07-03-2004, 04:24 PM

OK thanks for dri

I have tried to upgrade gnumeric and gedit with apt-get and I still have the same problem

What does

Quote:

they must have gotten out of sync

means ?

mritch · 07-03-2004, 06:26 PM

i think foo_bar_foo wanted to say that they (debian) made a boo boo (failure) with their packages or that there is a mismatch with these. i havn't looked at debian.org if they are working on it since i rarely (never) use that software. you may send in a bug report or search www.debian.org (or google) for any information if you need those packages.

sl mritch.

ion111 · 07-04-2004, 07:33 AM

I have found this problem as gnumeric bug, reported on debian site
Here is the link :
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgre..._pending-fixed

Quote:

Grave functionality bugs - pending upload
....
* #256243: gnumeric: gnumeric fails to start trying to allocate memory
Package: gnumeric; Severity: grave; Reported by: Luiz-Otavio Zorzella <zorzella@zorzella.com>; Tags: pending, sarge; merged with #255926; 8 days old.