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From: dba+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (David Anderson)
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Subject: Re: Andrew system memory problem
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Date: 30 Nov 90 16:36:27 GMT
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Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 29-Nov-90 Andrew system memory
problem Greg Smith@uunet.uu.net (1000)

> I use the Andrew console and Ez on a daily basis. I have a Sun3-80 with
> the standard 8 meg of memory and 12 meg of swap space.  When I was using
> the
> MocaChip console my computer would run out of memory overnight and blow
> out of an xlock as well as X itself.  I'm positive the console was the
> culprit. A process list however, did not show console as having any huge
> amount of memory allocated.

> Has anyone else had this problem with any Andrew consoles ?

You want official MIT patch #7 to X11R4, which fixes this problem, among
others:

	server memory leak tickled by andrew console program

--david

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