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From: Luther Huffman lutherh@inf...
Subject: Slave buffer problem
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 18:08:18 +0100

I don't believe I used the gscreen patch. It could, however, be one of the
other boddles. For the record, your system is nearly identical to mine --
16M, vgasize 1280x1024x8.

At 12:33 PM 7/12/96 -0400, our favorite Scott wrote:
>Luther Huffman <lutherh@inf...> writes:
>|      I'm running Plan 9 as term on a Pentium machine. A few days ago, I
>| began to have some of my applications crash mysteriously, freezing the
>| windows on the system. A message is displayed: "8 1/2: slave buffer: no free
>| mount rpc buffer". 
>
>I've started seeing that too, after applying the latest boddle plus the
>devvga.c:/gscreen.ldepth patch that someone posted to the list (Is it a
>correct fix?).  ^t^tx reports that there are very few bytes free, like
>22K (16M machine with kernerlpercent=40, vgasize=1280x1024x8).  If it
>gets really low, things start to hang, with processes Queueing or
>Scheding in Malloc or New.
>
>
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