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From: denbeste@bgsuvax.UUCP (William C. DenBesten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Bug in DiskFit 2.0 (and a workaround)
Message-ID: <6653@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 4 Dec 90 18:52:21 GMT
References: <1990Dec3.222811.26785@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
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From article <1990Dec3.222811.26785@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, by eacj@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Julian Vrieslander):
> DiskFit 2.0 will, under some circumstances, fail a memory allocation 
> and crash without providing the user with a warning or graceful exit.

I have had this same problem occur while backing up our 80MB file
server that has about 4000 files with version 1.5.1.  I also increased
the partition size, which made the problem go away.  I attributed the
problem to a large number of files being backed up.

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William C. DenBesten   is   denbeste@bgsu.edu  or   denbesten@bgsuopie.bitnet