jdubb@bucsf.bu.edu (jay dubb) (04/13/91)
I am posting this for a friend of mine who doesn't have access
to USENET, so please respond directly to mlevin@jade.tufts.edu.
Aabout a month ago I started up my VaxStation with Ultrix 4.1, and
the workstation software. It has 8 Megs of additional RAM, and
DecWrite, DecChart, and DecEquation. Its worked beautifully for the
month, with tons of processes going at once (kermit, DecTerm,
DecWrite, DecChart, switching between the windows) - nothing crashed,
and it worked just fine. But then I started getting messages that said
"out of memory - saving everything" from DecWrite. And now, several
things that I used to do before with no problem crash the program
completely, due to running out of memory.
Does anyone know what is going on? Where oh where has my memory
gone? I have heard of "growing X servers", but maybe this has nothing
to do with it (I know next to nothing about windows stuff). I note
that my X server, Xqvsm, is about 1 meg large, and there is also
a Xqvsm.new (where did this come from??) also about one Meg large. Is
this normal? Please help!
Mike Levin (mlevin@jade.tufts.edu)