zdoom error

Chris Couleur · Post by **Chris Couleur** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 2:36 pm

hey there,
Does anyone know what this error means i got while battleing a monster, Z_malloc:failed on allocation of 115744 bytes?
Luckly it has only happened once so far and i have not been able to reproduce it but if i knew what caused this i could possibly prevent it all together.
Thanks, Chris chrisc2@sbcglobal.net

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 2:49 pm

Sounds like ZDoom didn't have enough memory to work with. How much RAM do you have, what are your virtual memory settings, and what other programs were running in the background that might have been eating RAM?

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 3:25 pm

What version are you using? Z_Malloc has been removed some time ago so this has to be from an older version. What happened is that the game ran out of zone memory which was an internal heap that was rather small (I think 16MB) by default. The latest versions use the system's heap so they shouldn't have this problem anymore.

Chris Couleur · Post by **Chris Couleur** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 4:26 pm

I'm useing 1.23 i think. I have not upgraded for about a year or so. Hopefuly this will take care of the problem which i could not reproduce. Also have 128 meg ram with no other programs running. but the level is pretty darn big at about 2 meg. Don't know about virtual memory settings or how to check that>
Thanks, Chris

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 8:08 pm

Graf's right, you should update to the newest version (currently 2.0.60), and that should fix that problem right up.