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    A question has been asked concerning UUCP 1.03D and rnews The question
was:

TSI@cup.portal.com writes:

>I have installed the binaries from the recent posting of AmigaUUCP 1.03D and h
>have run into a problem. I have been running an old version of AmigaUUCP for
>several months with success so have had some experience with it.

>The problem is that when uuxqt runs to process news work files it immediately
>reports cannot load rnews: insufficient free store. I get this even though I
>have as much as 800K free. My newsfeed is not in compressed form.

    Doug Lee responded as follows:

I have observed this too! In Matt Dillon's documentation somewhere, he
mentions that rnews takes an enormous amount of memory. I have NOT been able
to get uuxqt to work on my one meg machine. When using the Francis 4 meg
expansion (which can be flakey, hence trying to run without it for reliable
unattended operation), uuxqt works just fine. I think I managed to get free
memory up to the 800k level and it didn't work. When running on the Francis,
it does take at least 650K for extended periods. I can't account for the
extra, but know it actually needs at least > 800K free to work. Educated
guess: maybe it needs a CONTIGUOUS 650K block. If you have 512K chip and
512K fast ram as I do minus Francis, the largest possible block is something
less than 512K. It would be interesting to find out if it works on a 1 meg
chip ram machine.


    I too have seen the problem, and I believe (very sure) the problem is
that rnews requires a large block of contiguous memory.  I have a 1.5 A1000
and normally have around 950K to a meg free.  Rnews will not load if there
is not a contiguous free block of at least 450K (not sure of the exact
number).  The total amount of free memory needs to be around 950K minimum
also.  I normally have to reboot to get the required contiguous memory.
(Anyone got a sure fire way to clear the fragmented memory?)






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