[comp.unix.i386] pathalias out of swap space

asv@gaboon.UUCP (Stan Voket) (11/19/89)

     Netlanders-

     I've just got 386ix up and running on a 386 with 8 meg of ram and 12 meg
     of swap space.  Now when I run pathalias, the machine either runs out of
     swap space and crashes or uses almost all the swap space but churns away
     infinitely (13 hours till I killed it).  I used to run this under xenix
     in 15 minutes with 4 meg ram and 6 meg swap.  Has anyone else
     encountered this problem?  Any help will be apprecited.

     Thanks,
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sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) (11/20/89)

In article <4522@gaboon.UUCP> asv@gaboon.UUCP (Stan Voket) writes:
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}     of swap space.  Now when I run pathalias, the machine either runs out of
}     swap space and crashes or uses almost all the swap space but churns away
}     infinitely (13 hours till I killed it).  I used to run this under xenix
}     in 15 minutes with 4 meg ram and 6 meg swap.  Has anyone else
}     encountered this problem?  Any help will be apprecited.

Yes, turned out to be a bug of some sort in pathalias related to some bad
maps we had. 

Got rid of the bad maps and everything started working fine again.


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