Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvax1!ehrlich From: ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Daniel Ehrlich) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Using xdm on IBM RTs running AOS 4.3/Sept 88 Keywords: xdm, IBM RT/PC, IBM RT 6152 Message-ID: Date: 15 Sep 89 12:42:00 GMT Sender: news@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu Organization: Computer Science Department, Penn State University Lines: 20 Hello, We have a number of IBM RT 6152 Academic Systems running AOS 4.3 (aka BSD 4.3). It would be nice if we could coerce our users into using X windows on these machines. Xdm looked like the way to go, but we have noticed that when a user logs out zombied processes tend to collect until the process table is full and the machine must be rebooted. Xdm is set up to restart, rather than reset, the server as the Xibm server tends to grow without bound if not restarted. Has anyone else tried using xdm on RTs running AOS? Have any of those experienced they same problem with zombied processes? I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has a clue as to why they are accumulating and/or how to prevent them from occurring in the first place. -- Dan Ehrlich | "A message is not a message until the The Pennsylvania State University | rules for interpreting it are in the Department of Computer Science | hands of the reciever." University Park, PA 16802 | --Apollo Belvedere Smith