inn 2.3, news.daily wont rebuild history files

[unilerik at green.rnd.uni-c.dk]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2000 unilerik at green.rnd.uni-c.dk wrote:
 
>
> On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Katsuhiro Kondou wrote:
>
> > In article
> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10011111152130.12818-100000 at green.rnd.uni-c.dk>,
> >       unilerik at green.rnd.uni-c.dk wrote;
> >
> > } My problem is that news.daily wont rebuild history files anymore
> > } -the problem started few days ago.
> > :
> > } expire begin Sat Nov 11 00:02:51 MET 2000: (-v1
-z/news_spool/log/expire.$> >
> > Can you truss expire with that options?  You may find what happens.
>
> yes, you'll see here,,,,,,
>
> bash-2.03$ expire -v1 -z/news_spool/log/expire.rm
> dbz.c:1293 Can't malloc 146031192 bytes: Not enough space
>
> ------------------------------------
> bash-2.03$ ulimit -a
>
> core file size (blocks)     unlimited
> data seg size (kbytes)      unlimited
> file size (blocks)          unlimited
> max memory size (kbytes)    unlimited
> open files                  3000
> pipe size (512 bytes)       64
> stack size (kbytes)         unlimited
> cpu time (seconds)          unlimited 
> max user processes          400
> virtual memory (kbytes)     unlimited
> ------------------------------------ 

-what can I do about the current situation? 
-and still having online readers?
Or should I shut down inn?

My history file has about 16M entrees, should I cut it down to half the
size and then try to run expire again?

Or should I shut down inn, remove current history files, and do 
'makehistory' and 'makedbz -i' ???

I have to do something!!!

/Erik