[Mediawiki-l] Email Confirmation Error

[Mr Scsi]

Hello,
I have an oddity that just reared its head.

When a user trys to confirm their email address, they get a 404 with IE, or
just plain blank page with firefox.
It used to work.


I looked in the logs and when the Special:Confirmemail/XXXXX is called an
error is generated:

"FATAL:  emalloc():  Unable to allocate 2002773080 bytes"

Researching the error turns up the suspected issue of "not enough memory on
the host system", but why would it need to allocate
1.8 gigs of  memory?

My system:


   - MediaWiki <http://www.mediawiki.org/>: 1.8.2
   - PHP <http://www.php.net/>: 5.1.4 (apache2handler)
   - MySQL <http://www.mysql.com/>: 4.1.12
   - Extensions:
      - Parser hooks:
         - *Inputbox*<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Inputbox>by
Erik Moeller
      All running on RHEL4.