[2670] in Athena Bugs
Re: xrn
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Fri Jul 28 15:54:49 1989
From: Henry Mensch <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: <dryfoo@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 28 Jul 89 13:56:28 -0400.
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 15:54:43 EDT
> } <29>beethoven:/site/dryfoo
> } % xrn
> } X Toolkit Error: Cannot perform malloc
> }
> } <30>beethoven:/site/dryfoo
> } %
>
> I used to be able to run xrn. Now I can't. Any ideas?
>
> (I can't get mail running from inside Emacs either, so I'm running out
> of options here.)
well, xrn is in the sipb locker and is a usenet utility; you would
normally contact usenet@athena.mit.edu with problems like this.
however, what you state suggests to me that some other process(es) on
your workstation are hogging resources. do a "ps agux" and look for
"large" processes. if all else fails, a reboot should clean you right
up :)
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