* 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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