Re: howto lock 2.1.40 without networking

Alessandro Suardi (asuardi@uninetcom.it)
Sun, 25 May 1997 20:24:29 +0200

Gerhard Traeger wrote:
>
> To lock 2.1.40, i don't need netscape nor wait for one or two hours (which
> works as well).
>
> I simply
> - log in
> - start fvwm (starts xconsole, xterm, xman, xcalc, xclock, emacs, xsysinfo)
> - start xxgdb from xterm (get no prompt)
> - try to start another xterm;
>

Meaningless, I'm afraid. I tried running:

fvwm2-95
2 xterms
xman
xcalc
xclock
xfm
netscape (a browser window and this mail window)
xxgdb
xeyes
xv
ghostview
nethack
top (which says:)

8:21pm up 36 min, 3 users, load average: 0.03, 0.14, 0.09
43 processes: 42 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.5% user, 1.5% system, 2.1% nice, 97.9% idle
Mem: 39184K av, 31904K used, 7280K free, 27540K shrd, 1988K buff
Swap: 35276K av, 0K used, 35276K free 14372K cached

All this under P100 40MB RAM and XFree86 3.2 XF86_SVGA for a honest
Cirrus 5430 with 1MB VideoRAM.

Somebody mentioned you might encounter trouble if running a UP
machine with SMP=1 _not_ uncommented in the toplevel Makefile.
BTW I never had a problem since "the cool kernel" (2.1.34).

A wild guess: you might stumble into memory allocation
problems, but not knowing how much RAM your system has my
guess is even wilder.

Ciao,

--alessandro <asuardi@uninetcom.it> <asuardi@it.oracle.com>

Linux-i386 kernel-2.1.40 libc-5.4.23 gcc-2.7.2.1 binutils-2.8.0.3