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Re: RUNAWAY STDLIST
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Gilles Schipper <[log in to unmask]>
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Gilles Schipper <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:45:02 -0400
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I don't think you can easily limit the size of an individual spool file.

However, you can set an upper limit on the total amount of disk space sectors allocated to spool files by simply:

:altgroup out.hpspool;files=nnnn, where nnnn=max. size in sectors

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: Michael Caplin <[log in to unmask]> 
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Sent: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 12:59:18 -0400 
Subject: [HP3000-L] RUNAWAY STDLIST

> Had a situation this morning where a program bug caused an infinite number of 
> displays in a stdlist for a batch job.  The free disc space went down as the 
> stdlist grew until the system failed. 
> 
> I know you can limit the time that a batch job gets.  Does anyone know of a 
> way to limit the size of a job's stdlist. 
> 
> Mike 
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