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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 21:28:40 +0100
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Ove Kaaven <ovek AT arcticnet DOT no>
Subject: Re: Memory-devouring ranlib de luxe
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At 20:47 14.01.98 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Ove Kaaven wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the suggestion, I tried it now, but it didn't help. The
>> 'internal heap' was at 128 paragraphs I think, so I tried 512, 1024, and
>> 8192, and I also freed 10 more megabytes of HD space. No go. "Memory
>> exhausted". (I'm using cwsdpmi r3, if that makes any difference.)
>
>I suggest trying with CWSDPMI r4, the latest.

Tried now. Same result.

>Another thing to try is to run ar from Windows and install one of the 
>available programs which watch memory usage.  Then you could tell whether 
>it indeed uses up all memory or just lies to you.

I don't currently feel like wasting time and disk space installing
unspecified and unrelated applications that wouldn't really solve the
problem anyway. And Windows provides less virtual memory than CWSDPMI does.
I suppose this linkage will just have to wait until I've upgraded the Linux
server and recompiled its binutils.

>Is that `ar' from the latest Binutils (2.8.1), btw?

Yes, 2.8.1.