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From: drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX 3.1 paging space
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Date: 25 Aug 90 21:12:23 GMT
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In article <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. I have 48mb
>RAM and 64 Mb of Swap.  

Yes, this is a known bug.  Specify "-b 20" on the tar command line
as a temporary circumvention.  Due to a trivial bug, tar is indeed
reading the entire file into memory...I believe this will be fixed
in the near future.


Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center 
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