hdr.dat size

dwohwell · Post by **dwohwell** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 5:16 pm

I try to make the fixed size of the hdr.dat size say 900 or 1000 megabytes. However it will only remember 800. Why is this? Is there a limit to how bit the hdr.dat file can get?
I have 2gigs of ram and my swap is set 4096. My peak memory usage is around 800 meg and my cpu usage is nill.

Any ideas would be welcome. I have perused several websites trying to get some understanding but have found not much.

alex · Post by **alex** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 8:03 am

i'm working on increasing the hdr.dat size (but it will be arranged rather in a different way) to 1.4GB, when going further the system doesn't want to allocate more memory within a single process. all is connected to win32 limitations of the address space so such changes are very difficult, in the end dealing with hardware limitations.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 3:29 am

Thanks, every little bit will help. Every year, more and more seems to get posted and news providers keep increasing retention. A couple years ago I never thought I'd see news providers retain 30 days binaries on NNTP.