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From: kriegman@klaupacius.eng.yale.edu (David Kriegman)
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Subject: Re: Running out of memory in Common Lisp 4.0
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Date: 21 Jun 91 10:24:32 GMT
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>We just started running Lucid Common Lisp 4.0 under SunOS 4.1.1, and
>have been having problems with running out of memory, garbage
>collection failures, and bus errors.  Our network includes a Sun 4/280
>fileserver and several SparcStation2's -- recently upgraded.  Each
>SparcStation has about 32Mb of swap space.

There is a bug in Sun Common Lisp 4.0 that causes this problem.  After
wrestling with this problem for nearly 3 months, I finally got a patch
from Sun and it cleared up the problem.  Give them a call.

	-Dave