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From: rjg@sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: pathalias problems (added combo board)
Message-ID: <501@sialis.mn.org>
Date: 3 Jun 91 02:18:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: sialis.501
References: <1991Jun1.052345.18699@iguana.uucp> <106367@becker.UUCP> <1991Jun2.145342.22274@iguana.uucp>
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In article <1991Jun2.145342.22274@iguana.uucp> merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer) writes:
|In article <106367@becker.UUCP> bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce D. Becker) writes:
|>In article <1991Jun1.052345.18699@iguana.uucp> merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer) writes:
|>|i added a combo board with 1.5 meg o' ram.
|>|
|>|now pathalias fails with this:
|>|
|>|pathalias: out of memory (0k allocated); notify the authorities
|>|
|>|any idea what's happening?
|>
|>
|>	You probably have an older version of
|>	pathalias; it has a bug causing this
|>	diagnostic when it's not the case.
|>
|>	It's fixed in versions which have sccsid dates
|>	of 89/11/20 or later in mem.c & mapaux.c.
|
|pathalias/mapaux.c:static char	*sccsid = "@(#)mapaux.c	9.5 89/11/20";
|pathalias/mem.c:static char	*sccsid = "@(#)mem.c	9.3 89/11/20";
|
|nope.
|
|i tried it again, using the -v option and it seemed to work.
|
|would a Cnews expire take enough away to crash it?

On a 3b1, even with 3.5MB RAM?  Without a doubt.  Lots of things will
get in the way of pathalias.  Even running mthreads (trn) is enough.

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