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From: Karl Wiebe <karl@dnai.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: INN 1.4 expireover craps out
Date: 31 May 1996 15:34:11 GMT
Organization: DNAI ( Direct Network Access )
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eastick@penage.cs.laurentian.ca (Doug Eastick) wrote:
>
>OS: BSDI 1.1
>News: INN 1.4
>
>When news.daily runs expireover, it craps out something like:
> Can't realloc 16984393 bytes memory
>
>Where the number varies each time it tries to run. I *THINK* the
>problem is when expireover tries to process a group which has many
>articles (or overview entries).
You need to adjust the limit for datasize in the news.daily, it probably
defaults to 16MB. While you're at it, you might "limit maxproc unlimited"
as well. You must already have something like this for innd itself, or
else I can't see how you would get very far...
--Karl
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== Karl Wiebe == karl@dnai.com ==
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