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Date:      Thu, 5 Feb 1998 16:23:21 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        garyj@muc.de
Cc:        hasty@rah.star-gate.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Any feedback on my recent kernel 'fixes'
Message-ID:  <199802052123.QAA01386@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <199802052115.WAA00541@peedub.muc.de> from Gary Jennejohn at "Feb 5, 98 10:15:39 pm"

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Gary Jennejohn said:
> Amancio Hasty writes:
> >
> >Just finished building xemacs20 on my pentium on a nfs partition previously
> >the system would lock up solid. I didn't have X running this time nor the
> >previous times which the system used to crashed while building xemacs.
> >
> >For sure I owed you a beer !
> >
> 
> can you run the new xemacs on the pentium as non-root without it
> complaining that memory is exhausted ? I've been seeing this problem
> for a few days on my P5. xemacs only works if I suid it to root.
> 
> I do not see this problem on my PPro at work under -current.
> 
What are your ulimits?  I wonder if something odd happened with your
login.conf or other way of modifying your ulimits?

-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid,
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.



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