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From: gentile@horsey.dec.com (Sam Gentile)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Decwindows crash
Message-ID: <3912@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Date: 2 Aug 89 17:51:46 GMT
Followup-To: comp.windows.x
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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In article <761@soleil.UUCP>, eam@soleil.UUCP (Ed A. Mills) writes...
>My VAXStation 3100 frequently crashes under DECWindows.  No warning or
>error messages are given, and it seems to result from a wide assortment of
>conditions.  Today, I pressed Shift-Printscreen accidentally, and it bombed.
>Sometimes when I open a window it crashes, although I had opened the same
>window only moments before.   It crashes from time to time in other common
>situations.
> 
>When it crashes the screen goes B&W, I get a >>> prompt and the system 
>locks up, after which I reboot.
> 
>Has anyone else found the DECWindows application to be this fragile?  Or
>has anyone else experienced sporadic crashes?  
> 
How much memory does your workstation have and how many applications do
you have running at time? If you are running with less than 6 MEG and more 
than one application at a time, you will experience sporadic crashes. I solved
my problems by having my apps run remotely on the mini in the cluster and
using my VS2000 for display.

Sam Gentile			gentile%horsey.dec@decwrl.dec.com
Software Engineer		decwrl!horsey.dec.com!gentile
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