simpson%trwarcadia.uucp@usc.edu (Scott Simpson) (05/27/89)
Sun OS 3.5. Sun 3/60. X11 R3 with posted patches and Purdue Speedups. About 17 meg swap space. I have two problems with X11 I don't know the answer to. 1) X sometimes gets in a state of all caps. I cannot turn the caps off with the caps key. I have to exit X and restart it. 2) We have applications that sometimes chew up all the memory. This seems to sometimes kill X and sometimes not. Occasionally the X Toolkit will come back and say "Out of Memory" and other times the X server will just die and I'll get back my Sun prompt. Please respond to me and the net. Scott Simpson TRW Space and Defense Sector oberon!trwarcadia!simpson (UUCP) trwarcadia!simpson@usc.edu (Internet)
rlk@THINK.COM (Robert L. Krawitz) (05/27/89)
Date: 26 May 89 21:21:37 GMT From: wiley!trwarcadia!simpson@uunet.uu.net (Scott Simpson) Sun OS 3.5. Sun 3/60. X11 R3 with posted patches and Purdue Speedups. About 17 meg swap space. 1) X sometimes gets in a state of all caps. I cannot turn the caps off with the caps key. I have to exit X and restart it. This happens from time to time on Suns. It's not the caps lock key getting stuck, it's the shift keys getting wedged. It can be unstuck by pushing both shift keys simultaneously several times and otherwise banging on the shift keys. 2) We have applications that sometimes chew up all the memory. This seems to sometimes kill X and sometimes not. Occasionally the X Toolkit will come back and say "Out of Memory" and other times the X server will just die and I'll get back my Sun prompt. If the X server tries to expand its memory for some reason, and there's none left, it probably dies. If some application tries to expand its memory when there's none left, it dies. Obviously, the server death is more unpleasant than the client death. Solution? Increase your swap space. If you're doing lots of stuff, 17 meg isn't very much. ames >>>>>>>>> | Robert Krawitz <rlk@think.com> 245 First St. bloom-beacon > |think!rlk Cambridge, MA 02142 harvard >>>>>> . Thinking Machines Corp. (617)876-1111