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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.lava.net!coconut!del From: del@aloha.com (The Caretaker) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: News remalloc error Date: 16 Dec 1996 01:22:24 GMT Organization: Aloha.Com News Server Lines: 33 Message-ID: <59288g$mit$1@opihi.aloha.com> References: <01bbe88a$3291d6d0$0d1711cb@tethys> <01bbea53$1a59d2a0$438002c2@pm0-67.sct.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: mango.aloha.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5449 Eric Salomé (salome@certix.fr) chatted away... : I believe the program running at that time was "expireover" (though it : could be expirerm) : "expireover" likes to put old .overview files in memory .... : It counts heavily on your C compiler to initialize all static variables to : zero when the program starts (hopefully most compilers sh(w)ould do that). : Try to find out a bug that could lead to such a memory greed. : Didn't find any....yet : I have launched "expireover -a" to get my old .overview file to reflect : the content of newsgroups directories. : Some of them have an .overview file size of up to 21MB.. not more : Can't find why expireover needs to be so greedy. : Help welcome. Hmmm. Rather than pointing expireover to the active file (default operation which feeds all the newsgroups at once), write a script and try feeding individual newsgroups one-at-a-time to "expireover -s -a -f-" g'luck! //del// ============================================================================= Flex Information Network 808.539.3790 HAWAII Email: postmaster@aloha.com >>> Hawaii's Very First Public Access Internet Provider, July 19, 1994 <<<