We had this re-indexing issue for a while and solved it by changing some
of our big lists from Notebook= Monthly to Notebook= Weekly.

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On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Liam Kelly wrote:

>> I am getting "Error 8 from HeapAlloc() for 379908678 bytes"  during a
>> reindexing operation.  The list is average sized.  What is this
>> indicating?
>
> It's a memory allocation failure.  When you say the list is 'average
> sized', what does that mean?  What is the total size of the archive for
> this list, and what is the single largest archive file for it?
>
> In nearly all cases, a HeapAlloc failure is an actual memory or user quota
> issue, but I've seen one case where it was caused by messages with corrupt
> base64 data.  If that's the case, you would see MIME parser errors in the
> LISTSERV log immediately prior to the crash.
>
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