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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: pathalias out of swap space
Keywords: pathalias swap space
Message-ID: <65@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 20 Nov 89 09:38:40 GMT
References: <4522@gaboon.UUCP>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates
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In article <4522@gaboon.UUCP> asv@gaboon.UUCP (Stan Voket) writes:
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}     of swap space.  Now when I run pathalias, the machine either runs out of
}     swap space and crashes or uses almost all the swap space but churns away
}     infinitely (13 hours till I killed it).  I used to run this under xenix
}     in 15 minutes with 4 meg ram and 6 meg swap.  Has anyone else
}     encountered this problem?  Any help will be apprecited.

Yes, turned out to be a bug of some sort in pathalias related to some bad
maps we had. 

Got rid of the bad maps and everything started working fine again.


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