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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: XFree86 gets spontaneously killed on Notebook
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 21:34:46 -0800
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Gunther Schadow <gunther@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de>

Gunther Schadow wrote:
> 1 login to the notebook via the PLIP inet :-)
> 2 start the X-server in a gdb debugger (gdb XF86_SVGA)
> 3 put some load onto it, play a game, compile and TeX in emacs
> ---> bang, the server hangs and gdb tells me
> 
> Program received signal SIGKILL in .lsdb

I sure hope you have at least 96MB of swap space configured, given all
the stuff you're trying to do on this poor laptop.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project