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From: weingart@inf.ethz.ch (Tobias Weingartner)
Subject: Re: xrn -- malloc error
Message-ID: <1992Dec2.174817.22109@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
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Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 17:48:17 GMT
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In article <1992Dec1.190437.6324@cm.cf.ac.uk> paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) writes:
|>I compiled the xrn from agate, with the 386BSD patches and it compiled
|>fine but it uses a LOT of virtual memory. Initially I got
|>
|>% xrn
|>xrn: X Toolkit Error: Cannot perform malloc
|>xrn: X Toolkit Error: Cannot perform malloc
|>% 
|>
|>so I set unlimited limits and eventually it started up. A ps -avx shows 
|>a VSZ value of 12372!!!

The more subscribed groups you have, the more RAM happy xrn gets.

--Toby.

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