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From: tom@ICASE.EDU (Tom Crockett)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: text: table is full
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Date: 4 Oct 88 19:19:47 GMT
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We have recently installed X11R2 on our Sun 3/50 workstations here at ICASE.
We are currently running SunOS 3.5.  Our X users are having trouble with a
message, evidently from SunOS, complaining about

  text: table is full

This typically occurs during makes or compiles when there are a lot of
processes active at the same time.  It causes processes to die before they
get started.  Users generally have 2 or 3 xterms running, along with an
xclock or two, an xload, xbiff, and maybe one or two other clients.
We almost never have this problem when running suntools, even with heavier
workloads.

Have other people noticed this phenomenon?  Is X really that much more
demanding than suntools?  Does anyone know of a solution or workaround?

Tom Crockett

Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering
M.S. 132C, NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton, VA  23665
e-mail:  tom@icase.edu
phone:   (804) 865-4097