kmalloc: Size (3149576632) too large

Marco d'Itri (md@linux.it)
Sun, 6 Jun 1999 21:25:13 +0200

root@wonderland:2:~#LANG= ping -s 65468 localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1) from 127.0.0.1 : 65468 data bytes
kmalloc: Size (3149576632) too large
ping: sendto: No buffer space available
ping: wrote localhost 65476 chars, ret=-1
kmalloc: Size (3149576632) too large
ping: sendto: No buffer space available
ping: wrote localhost 65476 chars, ret=-1
kmalloc: Size (3149576632) too large
ping: sendto: No buffer space available
ping: wrote localhost 65476 chars, ret=-1

--- localhost ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
root@wonderland:2:~#uname -a
Linux wonderland 2.2.5 #1 Sat Jun 5 22:09:52 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
root@wonderland:2:~#

The ping binary is the one from iputils (I can't find the version
number).

The ones from netkit and Nikhef-H give 100% packet loss but no kernel error.

-- 
ciao,
Marco




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