makedbz fail on Tru64 4.0f and stuff...

[Adam Bentley]

Hi all,
      I have hit is a resource issue when setting things up...

after I get a newsgroups and active file from my other server I run a
makedbz -i to create the new history files I will be using. Problem is
that makedbz fails as it cannot malloc sufficent space. Now I am guessing
this is a ulimit/shell resource issue but I did the same on my 4.0d box
(which has the same ulimit and sysconfigtab settings) and it worked...

any idea what i need to tweak here?

bash$ makedbz -i
dbz.c:1287 Can't malloc 60000000 bytes: Not enough space

bash$ ulimit -a

core file size (blocks)  unlimited
data seg size (kbytes)   131072
file size (blocks)       unlimited
max memory size (kbytes) 507536
stack size (kbytes)      2048
cpu time (seconds)       unlimited
pipe size (512 bytes)    8
open files               4096
virtual memory (kbytes)  1048576


and the only entry in sysconfigtab (added anyway is)

proc:
        maxusers = 256


Machine is an Alphaserver 800 5/500 whith 512mb ram. The news storage is
behind an HSZ70 (Raid 5, 2 partitions, 36gb for overview/software and s/w,
144gb for spool)

yes I know they should be on different spindles rather than partitions on
the same raidset and in a perfect world, I would be a millionare :-)

comments welcome to me please, and I will post a Summary

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