>>Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 10:05:03 -0700
>>From: "Kayvan A. Sylvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: Mark Hansel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Cc: John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Re: lyx crashes in tight memory situations
>>
>>On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 12:02:43PM -0500, Mark Hansel wrote:
>>> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, John Culleton wrote:
>>>
>>> >Mark Hansel wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Problem: lyx 1.1.5fix1 crashes when there is little free (real) memory on
>>> >> two alpha systems. (I reverted to 1.1.4, applied the three patches and
got
>>> >> the same behavior.) This is an upgrade from 1.1.0.
>>> >>
>>> >> System: Alpha LX 164 128 MB. OS: RH 6.2
>>> >>
>>> (The error is "Illegal instruction (core dumped)" (cut and paste).
>>> >
>>> >Are your documents extremely large?
>>>
>>> It does not matter what size document I try. Crashes occur loading lyx
>>> without a document or with a small document or with a monster document. I
>>> have to unload netscape, my calendar, time keeper, clock, addressbook, a
>>> dozen text files (open in emacs) - todo lists, short notes, etc. -- I have
>>> to free up about 25-30MB before the program loads.
>>
>>Maybe it has more to do with you freeing up display colors?
>>
>>My machine only has 96MB ram (but lots of swap space) and I don't have
>>the problems you are describing. Do you have enough swap space configured?
Another hint: is LyX stripped ? This make a big difference...
--
Jean-Pierre
