On Wed, 22 Jan 1992 16:53:39 CST Jonathon Simon <[log in to unmask]> said: >What I can't figure out is what makes LISTSERV send the message. Is it >just when it starts up? Yes, it will check virtual storage every time it starts up. It is trying to help you configure things and minimizing the risk that it will run out of storage while processing a job. >And finally, my LISTSERV seems to work just fine although I'm getting >the warning. Do I really need to expand LISTSERV's strorage? What price >am I paying by not bumping up storage to 4M? It is telling you that it doesn't think it has the ability to process large jobs it should be able to process. If it happens never to get any job/request/whatever which requires a lot of storage, everything will be fine. The reason it is implemented this way is that it is basically impossible to recommend a virtual storage size in an installation guide. Recent versions of CMS require much more virtual storage for static/initialization data and tables. Some shops have non-shared R/O FST's for thousands of files which eat up quite a lot of virtual storage. Some compile LISTSERV and lose 1 to 1.5M just in EXECLOAD data. LISTSERV is measuring the amount of storage it can actually use, and complaining if it thinks it's not enough, accounting for the fact that this is measured at initialization and that memory may get used and fragmented for various things (eg DISTRIBUTE cache) built after initialization, as the need arises. Eric