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From: Rashid  Karimov <rashid@rk.ios.com>
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Subject: Re: xemacs - memory exhausted
To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:26:58 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960828200605.361N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Aug 28, 96 08:06:37 pm
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> 
> On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Rashid  Karimov wrote:
> 
> > 	it belongs more to xemacs related lists,
> > 	but since I run it on FreeBSD :) -  what's
> > 	wrong ?
> > 	vmstat shows plenty of VM available, there's
> > 	no swapping activity going on,system is hardly
> > 	doing anything , but xemacs refuses to start.
> 
> Can you elaborate on "refuses to start"?  
> 
> Error messages?
> 
> Memory & swap configuration?  Other computer details?  Method of emacs
> installation?

	
	I've already fixed it , but anyways , it DID start per se , 
	but I couldn't do anything because of the very same problem
	and message. Even them bmp icons didn't pop up.
	I dived into the source code and well, it's pretty straightforward - 
	when malloc() fails you get this message. Just for the heck of it
	I recompiled xemacs with it's own malloc ( sbrk() ? ) - didn't
	help.

	So I used this chance to upgrade ( run install.sh in single user
	for bin and ssys) , rebuilt kernel and now it works.

	Rashid.