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From: erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: pathalias problem: out of memory type error
Message-ID: <519@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 89 21:33:38 GMT
References: <459@flatline.UUCP> <13551@moray.UUCP> <1234@frog.UUCP>
Reply-To: erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend)
Organization: Cold Lampin With Flav'
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In article <1234@frog.UUCP> john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) writes:
> In article <459@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
> >pathalias: out of memory (2460k allocated); notify the authorities
> >I have this sneaking suspicion that I can only allocate 2460k per
> >process under my flavor of unix. (3b1 Unix 3.0, kinda like Sys V rel 0.0).

>And curiously enough, I just ran pathalias and discovered that it now takes
>just under 4Mb to finish (though that is with the debugging mode enabled,
>because I've been getting bus errors and want to discover why!).  Just a
>couple of weeks ago, it was more like 2Mb.  Does anyone know why the maps
>suddenly got more complicated?  Curiously enough, the resulting palias file
>is only about 4% larger (896K versus 864K).


I've noticed a huge number of "you can't get there from here" sites
w/in the past week.  Most of the sites are in .jpn or .junet.

I'm getting ~860k pathalias files, requiring pathalias to use something
like ~1240Kb ram.



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