Would it be permission related? The only heap alloc error I ever received was from overloading indexing at midnight. We turned off a pre index heap memory switch I can't remember the exact switch. nate -----Original Message----- From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Curtis Stevens Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 2:59 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Heap Error Liam, thanks for your help! This list has 4 subscribers and about 800 messages totaling 11MB. The system has 4GB RAM and 2GB free disk space. ------------------------------------------------- Curtis E. Stevens Director, Standards & Features Technology 3355 Michelson Dr. #100 Office: 1-1041 Irvine, Ca. 92612 Phone: 949-672-7933 Cell: 949-307-5050 E-Mail: [log in to unmask] Remember, you may only be blamed for something if you are actually doing something. -----Original Message----- From: Liam Kelly [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 1:42 PM To: Curtis Stevens Cc: LISTSERV site administrators' forum Subject: Re: Heap Error > 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