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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Adding extra console window gettys: maybe not a good idea
Message-ID: <755@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 08:54:54 EST
Article-I.D.: neoucom.755
Posted: Mon Nov 16 08:54:54 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Nov-87 20:07:28 EST
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Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Summary: Various results


<<Discussion about  multiple console window gettys not working>>

I've had mixed results on this one.  I got sevral letters to the
effect, "I've been doing this for the last year, and never had a
problem".  I also received several letters to the effect, "I had
the same results as you."

Perhaps, this is a hardware difference?  I forget what version of
hardware gets displayed at the boot-up at the moment.  I was
playing it very cool and only had one extra console window.  I got
the error message when only one window was awake.  It seems that
when the getty respaws, it grabs new memory for the window, but
doesn't free the previous memeory.  What is odd is that this does
not seem to happen with only one console window.  Perhaps, this
could be a problem in a shared library used for window management.
It could be that oddness happens if the idle getty's memory gets
swapped out.  I'm not sure if this really happens; I've had too
many other irons in the fire to get a chance to check this out.

Diagnostics doesn't report anything out of the ordinary.

-Bill