IBook - "POSIX Error - Cannot allocate memory"

When attempting to use the Software Update, I get the following message: "POSIX Error - Cannot allocate memory."
Also, when attempting to access Safari, the following message is displayed:
Other suggestions previously have not worked, such as Preferences, Disk Warrior, etc.
Are there any others that may be recent or ground breaking?  Is it possible that Tiger is simply at the end of its lifecycle?

I use Tiger everyday as my main OSX, no such problems, though there are no Software Updates for Tiger for a long, long time.
Open System Preferences>Network>Configure>Proxies Tab, make sure none are set, like for HTTP & HTTPS.
Make a New Location, Using network locations in Mac OS X ...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106653
See this, especially last post...
http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?t=65149
OOPs... see you sloved it!

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    Hi
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    I have looked in these forums and tried to ring Apple with no luck, I am also reasonably computer illiterate.
    The only thing that has been done differently is that a friend connected his Iphone to get music
    Does anyone know how to rectify this?
    Regards Simon

    Usually this specifies a networking problem.
    A solution one user found on another forum was to set his modem to bridge mode and turn off automatic proxy. I don't know if that will work for you but I don't think it would hurt to try.
    (The original thread is here: http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-65149.html)

  • What's that: Posix error: cannot allocate memory?

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    few days ago I upgraded my Powerbook to 10.4.6. Then I use Software-Upgrade application to upgrade all applications it showed so far.
    Today I suddenly recognize, that Safari will not load any page anymore but abort with the error mentioned in the subject. Even www.apple.de cannot be opened.
    Therefore I tested to open the Software-Upgrade application and it bummers with exact the same message. So this means, I cannot even use Software-Upgrade in future!
    My Mail.app seem to be incapable to show pictures in emails.
    However, other applications like Finder, Camino and Thunderbird works well and did not abort.
    So my question would be if anybody know how I could get Safari, Software-Upgrade and Mail.app working again?
    Thanks in advance for any hint.
    Ciao,
    Clemens.
    Powerbook 12" G4   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   1.25 GB RAM

    First let me thank you, Fumiaki and the others who tried to help me.
    At the end, it was your final hint that did the trick for me
    (Fortunately -- I really already feared, I have to reinstall my MacOS. This would be something I ever hated on MS-Windows in the past)
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    Hi Mark,
    If you are importing a dump file into an existing environment and opened with the flags of(can have more) DB_INIT_LOCK | DB_INIT_LOG | DB_INIT_MPOOL | DB_INIT_TXN, then it is true you may see the error about "lock table is out of available lock entries" when the dump file is very big. The db_load process will not release the locks since it needs to provent other process from accessing the database being built to provide data consistency in the transactional environment.
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  • Cannot allocate memory error

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  • POSIX Error 12 - cannot allocate memory

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  • POSIX reports: The operation couldn't be completed. Cannot allocate memory

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