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- From: leonard@allink.com (Leonard Primak)
- Subject: Re: developing under sys 5 unix
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.202544.8707@allink.com>
- Organization: NYNEX ALLINK Company
- References: <1993Jan11.190843.6808@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:25:44 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.190843.6808@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> vahe@sparcy.Stanford.EDU (Vahe Avedissian) writes:
- >I don't know if anyone else has the same experience,
- >but I am always frustrated, and my patience tested
- >when developing on SGI or other machines running
- >Sys 5 unix.
- >
- >The real annoying thing is once you run a program
- >with a bug, the system tends to completely stop responding
- >to interrupts or anything else, the windowing
- >system and manager are rendered unresponsive too.
- >You just sit there and wait for the system to eventually
- >(i.e. anywhere from 3 - 10 minutes or so) core dump.
- >
- >I've used Sun's for many years and I have rarely seen
- >the window manager and entire workstation come to a halt.
- >With Sys 5 unix that seems to be the norm rather than
- >the exception.
- >
- >Do I need to reconfigure anything in the kernel/system
- >setup or am I stuck (plagued) by this forever ?
- >
- >Any help or suggestions greatly welcome!
- >
- >impatient,
-
- Well, I think you are stuck. Sun has a particular hardware/software
- configuration that "NOONE CAN STOP THE MOUSE FROM MOVING".
-
- You can run "openwin -nosunview" and the same problem will occur on Sun.
- The symptoms that you described are very serious bugs that not many people
- get and not very often. Your bug is allocating and shuffling too much memory.
- What happends is that you allocate more and more memory, and the system
- swaps without end until it runs out of swap space and kills your application.
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- Suggestion: Fix your memory allocation bug and this will never happen again.
-
- leonard@allink.com
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