Bizarre error message

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

mmapping /dev/zero is a reasonably standard way to acquire dynamic 
memory without using malloc. It also can be shared among other 
processes. Some commercial Unix mallocs are using mmap rather than 
sbrk. 

On 10 Apr 2001, at 9:47, John Chambers wrote:

> The most obvious reason for mmap to fail would be a memory shortage,
> but this happens when the machine is nowhere near saturated.  In the
> case a while ago, it happened when top in another window showed:

Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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