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From: aed@netcom.COM (Andrew Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: out of swap space??
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.162234.2182@netcom.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 91 16:22:34 GMT
References: <1991Apr23.214037.16410@netcom.COM> <1991Apr24.123035.4193@virtech.uucp>
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In article <1991Apr24.123035.4193@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>aed@netcom.COM (Andrew Davidson) writes:
>
>>I am currently trying to port an application from a sun sparc station
>>to SCO ODT UNIX. I seem to get some weird run time core dumps. I
>>talked to the orginal authour of the code, and was told that this
>>might because my system is running out of swap space?
>
>If you don't get any messages on the console, I find it unlikely that 
>the core dumps are being cause by running out of swap space.  Not 
>impossible, just unlikely.

One of the minor problems with ODT1.0 is that the xterm can not be a
console. For example on a sun running the mit X distribution xterm -C
?? sets the xterm to be the console. becuase I do not have a console
all errors are redirected to /dev/null. I will try sending them to a
log file instead

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