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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!caen!uunet!mcsun!chsun!bernina!neptune!weingart From: weingart@inf.ethz.ch (Tobias Weingartner) Subject: Re: xrn -- malloc error Message-ID: <1992Dec2.174817.22109@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd Keywords: xrn Sender: news@neptune.inf.ethz.ch (Mr News) Nntp-Posting-Host: tau.inf.ethz.ch Reply-To: weingart@inf.ethz.ch Organization: ETH - Switzerland References: <1992Dec1.190437.6324@cm.cf.ac.uk> <ByM0GB.HIL@cs.psu.edu> Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 17:48:17 GMT Lines: 29 In article <1992Dec1.190437.6324@cm.cf.ac.uk> paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) writes: |>I compiled the xrn from agate, with the 386BSD patches and it compiled |>fine but it uses a LOT of virtual memory. Initially I got |> |>% xrn |>xrn: X Toolkit Error: Cannot perform malloc |>xrn: X Toolkit Error: Cannot perform malloc |>% |> |>so I set unlimited limits and eventually it started up. A ps -avx shows |>a VSZ value of 12372!!! The more subscribed groups you have, the more RAM happy xrn gets. --Toby. *************************************************************** * Tobias Weingartner * Not every man is willing to die... * * c/o Bruno Opprecht * Some have to be PUSHED out the window * * Oberdierikoner st.7 * ------------------------------------- * * 6030 Ebikon Luzern * ...This space for rent... * * SWITZERLAND * ...This space for rent... * *************************************************************** * +41'041'33'25'40 * ..Midnight the fading, blue Wizrd.. * *************************************************************** SYSTEM-F-ANARCHISM, the operating system has been overthrown PGP2.0 Public Key available at 'finger weingart@tau.inf.ethz.ch'