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From: rfp@uucs1.UUCP (rfp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: xterm dies on ISC2.2 with "no more processes"
Message-ID: <515@uucs1.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 91 11:48:00 GMT
References: <559@jahangir.UUCP>
Reply-To: rfp@uucs1.UUCP (Roger F. Powell)
Organization: UUCS inc., Phoenix, Az
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In article <559@jahangir.UUCP> marc@jahangir.UUCP (Marc Rossner) writes:
>We are running ISC2.2 with 2.2.1 fixes on a Northgate 486 with X11/1.2
>and the X server will occasionally die with the error:
>
>"xterm:  Error 50, errno 11: No more processes"
>
We have seen the same problem on a generic 25Mhz 386 system with an
Adaptec SCSI controller, Paradise 8514, etc.  I can reliably reproduce
it by pulling up an xterm from our ISC/386 system, displaying on an
X server on another system, an then ignoring it.  After a while, it
will croak as above.


-- 
Roger F. Powell
UUCS inc.   Phoenix, Az
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