Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!killer!vector!rpp386!jfh
From: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: pathalias on sco xenix, problem
Summary: Sounds like he is running out of memory
Keywords: pathalias,sco,xenix,problem
Message-ID: <4217@rpp386.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jul 88 05:47:12 GMT
References: <57@libove.UUCP>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers
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In article <57@libove.UUCP> root@libove.UUCP (The Super User) writes:
>
>I've been running the pathalias version 9 as modified for SCO Xenix for
>months now, and all of a sudden (possibly with the advent of a new map
>file?) it core dumps when it is most of the way through a processing
>run (it takes about twenty minutes to run when it used to work, and it
>dies now after about fifteen minutes) with the message:

sounds like the same problem i have running pathalias on the 386.  it
runs out of memory after processing almost all of the maps.  it seems
that patalias requires about 2MB of memory (maybe less?) to process
the current collection of maps.

while on the topic, it seems that SCO Xenix does not actually page a
process which is growing.  from what i can tell of the pathalias problem,
a process which is being grown is swapped, and if the image size is
getting near the size of the swapper, you begin to get "warning: out of
swap" messages, even though there appears to be plenty of physical
memory to hold pages which can't be swapped or don't need to be swapped.
grrrrr.

- john.
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