Re: Memory shortage on an AOS RT

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From: Joe Greco
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 1990 06:18

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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt article <1990Aug27.192434.12456@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, kakazu@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Gary Kakazu) wrote:
:I just switched from AIX to AOS on my RT and am now experiencing memory
:shortages.  It is partiularly bothersome when I'm running XR4, and want to
:open another window or two (like another xterm, or start up xmh).
:This happens when I'm only running 2 or 3 xterms, twm, and oclock.  It's not
:like I have 20 windows open already.  Doing a "ps -augx" shows no processes
:hogging memory in the "MEM%" column.
:
:This never happened before when I was running AIX 2.2.1  Is the server so
:much bigger under AOS or do I just have things configured wrong?
:
:Any advice appreciated.
:
:Gary Kakazu
:kakazu@theory.tn.cornell.edu

How much memory do you HAVE?

We've got 8 megabytes here.  However if we don't have any swap space set up,
I run into conditions suspiciously similar to yours.  This could well be the
trouble.

... Joe

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