History File over 2GB

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:
> 
> > I suspect there's something else going on here, because it has all of
> > the delay at once and then sends all of the data, which doesn't match my
> > mental model of what should happen (send response header, and then send
> > multiline response one article at a time as they are discovered). 
> 
> There's something really weird with at least LISTGROUP; I just tried it on
> a newsgroup stored in timehash that has over 90,000 articles, and around
> 81,000 it started getting *really* slow and peaked at 40MB of memory used.

This probably needs to go on the TODO list to be fixed soon, don't you 
think?  Hopefully a bit of poking with gdb will elicit the problem.

-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org