[Info-vax] TCPIP tying up system

[Steven Schweda]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:

> True.  This is a 3000/600 with 192 MB.

   192MB?  Yikes.  I had 768MB in my main AlpSta 200 4/233,
and 384MB in the spare/experimental one.

>   Soon to be replaced by an XP1000
> with 2 GB.  [...]

   Not soon enough, apparently.  Run a couple of copies of
[C]SWB, and you'll soon wish that you had more than that.
Having a little memory left over for the disk cache can
actually help performance, too.

> Several years ago, for a time, I actually had 7.3-2 on 48 MB.  That was
> definitely too small.  Normally, there is NOT too little memory, just at
> occasional problems like this.

   No, 192MB is _always_ too little memory, you just don't
know that yet.  With my weak psychic powers, I can't see your
SHOW MEMORY /FULL report, but I'd bet that it's scary.  I had
a power failure recently, so my uptime is only about nine
days, so the Web browsers haven't yet eaten all the memory in
the world, so my Extended File Cache still says "Allocated
(MBytes) 113.07".  I wish that mine were larger.  I'd bet that
yours is smaller.

   Your SMTP receiver processes are starved for memory.  Your
whole system is starved for memory.  If you do have any free
memory (which seems unlikely), then you should let someone use
some of it.  Or get some more.