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X windows, help.



Hi all,

I know this may not be the proper
place to address my question, but , at this
moment, I don't know anywhere else I
could post it to: Our system administrator
seems to be too busy to worry about an old SGI Indigo
workstation I'm working on, and before
pressing him to do his work, I would like
to have a second oppinion.

I'll try to briefly describe what my problem is.

Four weeks ago, when I started to use this
SiliconGraphics workstation, it worked fine, despite
his low RAM (only 32M) and just 10M free available
for the filesystem (the Unix & Xwindows system
resides on a HD of only 540M ): I had 4 xterms windows
open, working remotely with the XmGr 2D plotting
program (similar to GNUPlot) in one of them, and
at the same time having Netscape Communicator 4.06
open, my Xclock running, and still I was able to
open a motif based text editor (jot), or my xman
pages.

All seemed to be correct.

After the second week I started to get problems,
first when trying to run Netscape: They always
were about the machine beeing "out of logical
swap space" and seemenly not been able to allocate memory
("cannot perform malloc"). Later, the problem spread
through all type of processes. Today, I had just
four xterm wimdows open with two telnets, one ftp
and the last one pointing to my home directory.
It has been impossible to open my postscript viewer;
not even to perform a "man swap" command !
"Resources temporaly not available" said the
machine.

I don't want to send you a too long a message,
but I have available some error messages I get,
which I could send if someone wants to have a
look.

Is it really a strike of my machine, in demand
for more RAM ? If so, why did "he" worked fine
at the beginnig ?

I'm getting desperate with it. Anyone knows
may be where to get some help? (web, news, list...)

Any trick, hint, or solution would help
me to get my system administrator having a look
at my machine. At the moment he only complains
the problem be a low RAM memory, something he
cannot change unless the department decides to
buy more RAM for this old machine which no one
wanted to use, and which I've tried to "rescue"...

May be I should give up.

Any way, thanks for your patience.

Regards,
M.A. Santos
msantos@etse.urv.es
P.D.:
As this is not the proper list to post it,
you are wellcome to send any hints to
my private address.