[1011] in SIPB bug reports
Re: GRIPE about XRN 6.7 (for X11R4)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Apr 14 23:14:01 1990
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 90 23:13:33 -0400
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: hoyt@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Hoyt Bleakley's message of Sat, 14 Apr 90 16:13:18 -0400,
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
From: hoyt@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 90 16:13:18 -0400
This read-news (XRN) program dies quite a bit, leaving an "Error:
Cannot perform malloc" in the xterm that I used to start the program.
I suspect this is because you are running out of memory on your
workstation, and thus xrn cannot get enough memory (via malloc) to run.
If this happens again, you should try quitting programs/windows that you
don't need.
Note: one common cause of running out of memory is people using
control-Z to exit programs. Control-Z doesn't exit the program,
however; it merely stops the program "temporarily", so that the user can
continue it later on. If you have a lot of programs which have been
stopped, then their memory won't be freed back to the system until you
kill them. To do this, use the "jobs" in each of your xterm windows,
and if you have a lot of stopped jobs, then you can use the kill command
to kill the jobs.
I hope this helps!
athena% jobs
[1] - Stopped latex
[2] + Stopped latex
athena% kill %1
[1] Terminated latex
athena% kill %2
[2] Terminated latex
athena%
- Ted
