Xref: utzoo comp.unix.xenix:11812 comp.unix.i386:5470 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!sumax!amc-gw!thebes!campbell From: campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: pathalias slowdown Message-ID: <4313@thebes.Thalatta.COM> Date: 31 May 90 05:34:43 GMT References: Reply-To: campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell) Distribution: comp Organization: Thalatta Corporation, Bellevue WA Lines: 35 In article ron@mlfarm.uucp (Ronald Florence) writes: :>We use pathalias (9.1 87/10/04) with Xenix 2.3.2, on a ps2/80 with six :>megabytes of ram. Building our map normally takes ~2 minutes. :> :>The recent batch of maps apparently has taken our pathalias over some :>threshold. Without the map u.usa.ca.1, the build takes the same ~2 :>minutes. With all of the maps included on the command line, pathalias :>churns and swaps, slowly growing in size. An hour later, when I :>finally killed the process, it was at 5704K (according to ps); the :>machine was swapping furiously (the vmstat display made you want to :>cry); and the last message from the "-v" option in pathalias was :>still "***mapping". :> :>I assume we need more memory. Why does the memory need grow so :>ferociously with what seems an incremental addition of nodes and :>links? Is there a fix short of another two megabytes of ram? :> :>Thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions. :>-- There has been considerable discussion on comp.mail.uucp about this problem. It seems there is a bug in one of the map entries in the ca.1 map and a new mexico map that causes older pathalias to loop. There is supposed to be a new version of pathalias available that doesn't blow up on this. Try looking at the discussions in comp.mail.misc and comp.mail.uucp. -- ....microsoft--\ Bill Campbell; Celestial Software ...uw-entropy----!thebes!camco!bill 6641 East Mercer Way ....fluke------/ Mercer Island, Wa 98040 ....hplsla----/ (206) 232-4164