From: jsaker@odin.unomaha.edu (James R. Saker Jr.) Subject: compress -d problems Date: 4 May 1992 20:33:21 GMT
I'm running into problems w/ Linux compress eating up all my
available memory and swap (8MB RAM/25MB virtual) when uncompressing
files of various sizes. compress -d chews up all existing memory almost
immediately and then starts eating into swap until there's none left -
even on compressed files as small as 100,000.
I've tried the compress fix on tsx-11:/pub/linux/binaries/usr.bin/compress
and it does the same (I presume it's the same binary since I'm running
0.95c+). I'm running on a 486DX, 8MBytes RAM, 210MB IDE, VGA.
Has anyone run into similar probs and found a fix for it?
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. Jamie Saker jsaker@odin.unomaha.edu .
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