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- From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE]: linux version 0.99 (see also: [BUG REPORT] swapping & sagas of X lockups)
- Keywords: kernel linux 0.99
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.174625.1102@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 17:46:25 GMT
- Article-I.D.: galileo.1992Dec14.174625.1102
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- In <1992Dec14.172729.9675@tc.cornell.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:
-
- >Okay everybody... You know the plan! Linux 0.99 really *is* 1.0... but it'll
- >need some bug-fixes before we *call* it 1.0. So now is the time to concentrate
- >on BUG FIXES. I would even go so far as to suggest that the folks with other
- >stuff they're doing under Linux (like everything other than the kernel) should
- >concentrate on making their packages work with Linux 0.99...
-
- Okay. I posted a note this morning about not being able to get 0.99 to boot.
- Well, I solved that problem... Just my own stupidity. *BUT*, I may have a
- bug to report here.
-
- I also posted another note about X locking up perodically (Subject was
- [BUG REPORT] swapping trouble ?!?). Now that I am running 0.99, the kernel
- manages to keep limping when X locks up--enough for syslogd to spit out what
- happens: I get a whole bunch of "No free inodes -- contact Linus" messages.
-
- ==>> Before you tell me one of my filesystems is full, read this: I did an
- ==>> fsck/efsck -v on all my paritions; none have inode usage over 30%.
-
- My thoughts are that there is a problem with the number of open files. What
- is the current limit? When running X, I see the number of open files up around
- 300. However, it never gets higher--if I do something which opens a file,
- X hangs and I get the "No free inodes messages."
-
- I can recreate this quite easily by trying to run two copies of ghostview
- at once.
-
- I would really like to get this fixed--even if I get a bunch of mail telling
- me I'm a bonehead because I've done something wrong.
-
- -Chris
-
- --
- >>>> Chris Newbold <<<< * "If you fool around with a thing for very long you *
- University of Rochester * will screw it up." *
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