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- From: oj@miki.pictel.com (Oliver Jones)
- Subject: Re: "Insufficient resources for operation" ??
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.204747.2193@miki.pictel.com>
- Organization: PictureTel Corporation
- References: <1992Aug21.160245.12916@cs.tulane.edu>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:47:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug21.160245.12916@cs.tulane.edu> kam@tulmath.math.tulane.edu (Katherine Hosch) writes:
- >Greetings. I just installed X11R5 on a 4/380 and have been having
- >problems of various sorts ever since. In running X on a sparc ELC,
- >and running some openlook applications, bad things occasionally
- >happen. For instance, a click of the left mouse button in a window
- >has made the window disappear; or trying to respond to mail has caused
- >the mail tool to disappear.
-
- Try issuing the command
- xset bc
- to turn on bug-compatibility in your R5 server.
-
- >Today I was running a mail tool remotely...
-
- Do you mean from a remote X terminal? Or do you mean running the R5
- server on your ELC, but with mailtool running on another host?
-
- >and finally got an error message:
- > X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources
- > for operation)
-
- This tells you that your mail tool client resized a window and
- couldn't allocate (using malloc and sbrk) enough storage to let it
- work properly. It's probable that mailtool's window has backing store
- turned on.
-
- >I am guessing that this may mean that I need to reconfigure kernels
- >that are running X so that there is a larger number of max_processes.
-
- This has nothing to do with max_processes. If it's the server running
- on your ELC that failed, you're probably out of swap space on the ELC.
- Say "/etc/pstat -s" to the ELC and it will tell you how much swap
- space you have. If it's less than about 5000K available when the mailtool
- and other applications are up and running, add some. See swapon(8).
-