> Any idea what this means?
>
> alpha> save all
> Saving ports
> Saving global configuration
> Couldn't save global configuration
Means one of your flash chips is fried. Time to RMA
> It just started doing it today. I think it happened for a short
> time on another PM2, but then it started letting me save again.
It worked after a while? Hrm, I wonder if its soemthing else...
>
> alpha> ver
> Livingston PortMaster PM-2e ComOS 3.7
> System uptime is 7 hours 11 minutes
> alpha> show mem
> System memory 1048576 bytes - 1048480 used, 96 available
> 2048:3 176:0 1152:1 640:1 144:5 64:0 96:1 80:7 16:127 128:1 160:2 32:7 48:0
> System nbufs 1400 - 945 used, 455 available
>
> Oh dear. Looks like it's out of memory. I guess OSPF must chew up memory
> pretty badly. What exactly is the effect of running out of memory on a PM?
Ooh, yah, Id say up to 4 megs if you are going to do lots of routing.
> I'll upgrade the memory as soon as I can get some. Is parity really required?
> I've got a bunch of old Amiga memory I'd love to put to use :)
Try it.
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