Donna asks,

 > ps -- anyone want to hazard a guess as to why this file keep getting
 > bigger?  my slt indirect file hasn't changed nor is there a sudden
 > influx of new files in /SYS/....

Frequent patching might cause your libraris (NL, XL, SL) to grow in
size, esp. the NL.  Yet your >20% increase sounds a bit much for that.

you can use CHECKSLT to restore files from the SLT and compare maybe
files from an older (<200k) SLT with the current ones.

I vaguely remember that we once worked on a problem where some 
customers' NL or SL were constantly growing in disk allocation
due to some strange problem. must have been back in the 5.0 days
or so. I don't remember what the cause or the solution was though.

Bottom line, check your PUB.SYS libraries, for comparison
one of our 7.5 systems shows :

:listfile [NSX]L.PUB.SYS,2
ACCOUNT=  SYS         GROUP=  PUB

FILENAME  CODE  ------------LOGICAL RECORD-----------  ----SPACE----
                   SIZE  TYP        EOF      LIMIT R/B  SECTORS #X MX

NL      * NMXL    128W  FB      146711    4096000   1   159744 81  *
SL      * SL      128W  FB      122589     320000   1   122880 63  *
XL      * NMXL    128W  FB       78517    4096000   1    79872 42  *


HTH,
Goetz

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