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. -- James Morrill office: HL 11, 785-532-4909 www-personal.ksu.edu/~james If you want to be a leader with a large following, just obey the speed limit on a winding, two-lane road. 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. > > -- > Liam Kelly > Senior Consulting Analyst > L-Soft international > [log in to unmask] > > Interested in other L-Soft products? See what else we have > to offer here <http://www.lsoft.com/products/products.asp> > archives at <http://www.lsoft.com/news/newsletter-us.asp> > > ############################ > > To unsubscribe from the LSTSRV-L list: > write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > or click the following link: > http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=LSTSRV-L&A=1 > ############################ To unsubscribe from the LSTSRV-L list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=LSTSRV-L&A=1