Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: out of memory????
Message-ID: <1990Sep9.224002.17588@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Sep8.203418.1763@intacc.uucp>
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 90 22:40:02 GMT

In article <1990Sep8.203418.1763@intacc.uucp> mann@intacc.UUCP (Jeff Mann) writes:
>... However, expire is now complaining about
>running out of memory in various functions, and I can't very well
>do without expire.

Expire, unfortunately, tries to swallow the entire active file, so its
need for space has been growing steadily as the number of newsgroups
has grown.  Sounds like it's gone over the edge.  I have sketched out
a fix for this but have not done it yet.

I assume you answered "small" to the build question about available address
space.  Given that, relaynews doesn't have a similar problem that I know
of, but it may be just on the edge.  We unfortunately have not had a 16-bit
machine on hand for development testing for quite some time, and this
makes it difficult to keep tabs on whether things still fit.

I fear that recompiling using large model is the answer.
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