Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 2 Jul 1996 05:48:49 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mark T. Gray" <> | Subject | Re: no memory for X???? |
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On 1 Jul 1996 Neal.Becker@comsat.com wrote:
> Here's a new one. This is linux-2.0. X suddenly froze when I tried > to switch to a virtual console. The log says: > > Jul 1 21:51:13 nealslip2 kernel: Out of memory for X. > > At the time I was ftp'ing via ppp and compiling. > This has happened to me once or twice with 2.0 also, but it has always happened just as I was starting up X. I didn't report it because I was trying out both a libc-5.3.12 and a modified XFree86-3.12 I had compiled myself, and just assumed I had f'ed up :-) Like you, I use ppp, but in my case popclient was running at the time (I usually start it up just before starting X).
I haven't had the problem happen again since I (for other unrelated reasons) removed the insmod of bsd_comp.o and several other modules from my startup; took the "xv -root" out of my .xinitrc; and recompiled libc and XFree86 several more times. I have 24Meg of memory and 100Meg of swap so this problem should not have happened unless something were wrong somewhere I would say.
Sorry I can't give any more hints as to what might be wrong -- it hasn't happened to me for a few days now and even when it did happen it was a random enough occurrence that I don't have much hope of recreating it.
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