Here's a fun little D'OH of mine.

I'm studying interprocess communication and messing around with shared memory. Nothing too fancy, just some basic fork and mmap shit to get my feet wet.

Now, I decide I want to test trying to have a child spawn another just to see if I'm at a point where I can handle it. WEll, I run it and get a bunch of error codes I've never seen.

But I'm me, right. So I drop the error between quotes into a search, there's only vague results from obscure sites but I do some reading and narrow down the issue to insufficient memory, more specifically, "the page file is of insufficient size".

And so I think mmmh, that's a little sus. I have plenty of free on-chip memory, why does it need a bigger page file? Ah, whatever, I have it set to 512MB anyway so that's probably too low. Alright computer, manage the size of this yourself.

Restart, thinking I cracked this shit. And then I go to run the program again. This time no errors, but the machine slows to a crawl...

What happened? Turns out it said the page file is too small because I WAS ASKING FOR MORE MEMORY THAN THE SYSTEM HAS, VIRTUAL AND PHYSICAL COMBINED. FUUUUUCK ME.

But alright, facepalm and takes me a minute to fix my mistake, easy money. Now I'm going to borrow the terrible error message idea and turn it into errcode 420 you are not stoned enough to execute this command, blaze it fgt~