[18591] in Athena Bugs
Our screen saver is sensitive to running out of swap space.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Thu Dec 7 11:53:34 2000
Message-ID: <ou=w21pz0001BZDpka@mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:53:21 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
CC: vchudnov@MIT.EDU
Interesting problem:
If there is a job running that sucks up all the swap space while a
system is screen locked, the screen saver will seg fault and not restart.
While it is possibly a boon to policy that people running long jobs on
locked Athena systems may come back to find their screen has been
unlocked while they were away, this bug HAS bitten someone using the
building 37 systems designated for long jobs.
Is there a way to make the screen saver a little more immune to bad
behavior from running out of memory?
-wdc
