* askthelist@gmail.com <askthelist@gmail.com> [2008-05-07 03:45]:
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> A long running bgp session died with the following error... there was plenty
> of free memory available on the box. over 1 gig free. Anyone know why this
> condition occurs and how I can avoid this in the future? Thanks.
> 
> May  4 18:13:38 ashley bgpd[5614]: fatal in RDE: up_generate_attr: Cannot
> allocate memory

well, you ran out of memory in the sense that malloc was not willing to 
give you more. prime candidate: ulimit.


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