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From: markus@cernvax.UUCP (markus baertschi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX 3.1 paging space
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Date: 24 Aug 90 14:10:40 GMT
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In <7170@umd5.umd.edu> bonnett@umd5.umd.edu (hdb) writes:

>I have run into another page space quirk, this one with tar.
>When I attempt to untar a LARGE (86megs) file on my 530 I 
>get lots of disk action and after a few minutes a last gasp
>from tar: "Low on Paging Space!!!" and a crash.
>-dave bonnett; Academic Software Dev Grp. Univ of MD

  Dave,

  This is a feechur of tar on AIX 3.1. Tar just allocates one block of
  memory (which is just as big as the file). There is a switch for tar
  (-Bn, where n ist the block size) to set the size of the chunks tar
  allocates at one moment.

  Markus

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