Date: 20 Feb 1998 18:31:58 -0600 From: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org> To: Brian Handy <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com> Cc: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xemacs doesn't like -STABLE Message-ID: <87n2flol1d.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: Brian Handy's message of "Fri, 20 Feb 1998 16:04:03 -0800 (PST)" References: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980220155724.21810T-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>
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Brian Handy <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com> writes: > I wrote: > > [My Xemacs quit working with the latest -STABLE upgrade] > > On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Chris Timmons wrote: > > >I rebuilt world and kernel and my xemacs-20.3 from late december seems to > >work fine. My machine has RAM-o-plenty; any chance your machine has to > >start swapping once you get a lot of things going in xemacs? > > Hehe...I have no RAM problems. 192MB+650MB of Swap, and I've been able to > fail it completely on an unloaded system. Furthermore, it *used* to work > so I don't think that suddenly "I don't have enough swap". I don't even > have enough running to crash up against login.conf, the evil I usually > blame everything on. (Have I said login.conf was a huge step backward? > It was. :-) Hm... sounds like your limits from login.conf are causing the trouble, don't you think? Why don't you add yourself as root and just set everything to unlimited/infinity and see if that fixes it? Probably a good idea for a single-user (mostly) box anytway. Another vote from me for a installation option "turn off draconic settings in login.conf for a (mostly) single-user machine". -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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