Xref: utzoo comp.unix.xenix:11806 comp.unix.i386:5455 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!hsi!mlfarm!ron From: ron@mlfarm.uucp (Ronald Florence) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.i386 Subject: pathalias slowdown Message-ID: Date: 30 May 90 16:23:14 GMT Sender: ron@mlfarm.UUCP Distribution: comp Organization: Maple Lawn Farm, Stonington, CT Lines: 20 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. -- Ronald Florence {yale,uunet}!hsi!mlfarm!ron