Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!lll-tis!oodis01!uplherc!sp7040!obie!wes From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Running out of swap space in V/AT Summary: A (perhaps) more workable solution... Message-ID: <249@obie.UUCP> Date: 25 Jun 88 13:50:59 GMT References: <214@sdeggo.UUCP> <601@wa3wbu.UUCP> Organization: Great Salt Lake Yacht Club, north branch Lines: 26 In article <214@sdeggo.UUCP>, dave@sdeggo.UUCP (David L. Smith) writes: % My newsfeed began sending me compressed news a few weeks ago and since then % I have been running into a problem fairly regularly. The uncompress eats In article <601@wa3wbu.UUCP>, john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes: > I ran into this a while back on an abnormally large News session. > Unfortunely I beleive I beleive the only solution is to increase the > size of your swap partition. I increased mine to 8000 blocks and > havnt had a problem now in 9 months or so. I initially did this, too, but then I decided it was taking far too long decompressing the news files with the 16-bit decompress. My feed didn't want to have to arrange a special 13-bit compression for my site (they feed about 5 other sites, too). So I just bought a 2400 baud modem and xfer every thing uncompressed. It is actually faster than the total time to xfer compressed and de-compress the files. My system is fairly slow, though - 8 Mhz 286/287. I do handle quite a bit of traffic, the average is a little over 1 meg/day - I feed a college in Ogden (wsccs, net23, wscvax, and wsceng). -- /|\ Barnacle Wes @ Great Salt Lake Yacht Club, north branch / | \ @ J/22 #49, _d_J_i_n_n_i /__|__\ ___|____ "If I could just be sick, I'd be fine." ( / -- Joe Housely, owner of _E_p_i_d_e_m_i_c -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~