Rminnich@UDEL.EDU (06/25/87)
We have a Vax 8500, running Ultricks 1.2, and are having some weird troubles. It has 20 Mb of memory and a total of 66Mb swap space. When we get a macsyma, an emacs, and a couple other processes running so that the total real memory used is around 13 Mb or so, programs stop working, for example: cc: cannot find /lib/cpp top: bad address in proc table ps: bus error, core dumped and a host of other strange problems. Get rid of enough programs to free up some 'core' and the problems stop. We have tried /usr/field/memx and it gets no errors, except it cannot run when more than 13 Mb of real storage is in use. We kind of think this is an Ultrix problem, not a hardware problem, but we are a baffled. Anybody seen this? ron