Re: Weird Crash - "WAITING_TO_RUNNING"

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Nathan <nathan.stocks () gmail com> wrote:
> "Is this on a 32-bit machine?" -- The hardware is 64-bit capable, but
> the old version of linux on it is compiled in 32-bit, I think.  The OS
> can address more than 4GB RAM, but the stuff running on it seems to
> act very 32-bit.  Python's maxint is 32-bit, anyway:
>
> $ python
> Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Oct 30 2008, 18:03:18)
> [GCC 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.1)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> > > > import sys
> > > > sys.maxint
> 2147483647
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux scan5 2.6.23-gentoo-r9 #4 SMP Tue Oct 12 16:02:12 MDT 2010 i686
> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5507 @ 2.27GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Your processor (running as 32 bit) is using PAE (Physical Address
Extension) to allow more than 4GB of RAM. Your process is still only
allowed ~4GB of addressable RAM. This is why Nmap is crashing for you.

-- 
- Patrick Donnelly
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