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From: patrick@value.net ()
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Help with INND; Cant Realloc memory?
Date: 27 Jan 1996 16:48:57 GMT
Organization: Value Net Internetwork Services Inc.
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References: <4e0k5r$n7@quartz.goldrush.com> <slrn4g9hjv.pfs.hwr@snert.pilhuhn.de>
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Heiko W.Rupp (hwr@pilhuhn.de) wrote:
: In article <4e0k5r$n7@quartz.goldrush.com>, larryt@goldrush.com wrote:
: >I get daily crashes with the following message: 
: > ME cant remalloc 262144 bytes Cannot allocate memory.  

: I guess you didn't look at the inn faq? :)

: put some unlimit calls in rc.news before it calls inndstart:

: limit datasize unlimited
: limit openfiles 256
: limit memoryuse unlimited
: limit maxproc unlimited

: -- 
: Heiko W.Rupp hwr@pilhhuhn.de
: INN FAQ can be found in ftp://ftp.xlink.net/pub/news/docs/

A suggestion I found totally useless by itself when I tried it on our 32 meg 
BSDI server a few months back. Upgraded to 64 megs *AND* added the above 
and everything is great now. Maybe an addition to the FAQ?  


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