Linux-Misc Digest #915, Volume #25 Sun, 1 Oct 00 13:13:04 EDT
Contents:
radio ("Marzioux")
Re: where's a good software site? (Anthony Aicardi)
Re: Win2K + Linux: NTFS and ext2fs (Rod Smith)
Re: Wierd Lilo problem (Bit Twister)
Re: news and mail client for linux ("Jan Schaumann")
Re: news and mail client for linux (Thomas Zajic)
Re: CGI scripts do not work (David Efflandt)
Re: Error mouting Floopy (David Efflandt)
Re: sony vaio F580 Notebook unable to install ("visor-palm John")
Re: MS Netmeeting under Linux? (David Efflandt)
Re: radio (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Mounting Sony SuperStation Tapes (fred smith)
Re: no DRQ after issuing WRITE??? (David Efflandt)
rpm confusion (Carsten Mohr)
getting mpg123 to launch (Matthew Burton)
Re: PLEASE HELP ASAP: Trying to use PPP to across other computer with serial port
Trying to use PPP to across other computer with serial port (David Efflandt)
Your RedHat 7.0 impressions? ("David Perry")
Re: Redhat: hard drive accessing (David Efflandt)
Memory per process question (Loukas Kallivokas)
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From: "Marzioux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: radio
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 14:15:56 GMT
Is there a method to listen to web-radio through linux os. (programs like
real audio or windows media player)
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From: Anthony Aicardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where's a good software site?
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 16:22:51 GMT
For a GUI with gnome I think there is Balsa.=20
K-mail with KDE.=20
The e-mail in StarOffice is okay as well if you want GUI.
I like good ole' pine myself. ;-)
/tony
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 9/30/00, 4:27:27 PM, "Matt Burton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding=20
where's a good software site?:
> i'm a newbie looking for applications to replace my windows ones=20
temporarily
> while i try out linux. is there a definitive site for linux software?=
=20
i
> can't believe i've had such a hard time finding a good email program.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Win2K + Linux: NTFS and ext2fs
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 14:58:38 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> And now that I have done some chatting, I would like to ask a
> question: is there a utility that allows Win2K to read (and
> perhaps also write to but read would be good enough) my
> Linux ext2fs partitions? This would make life somewhat
> easier as I do a lot of swapping files back and forth.
Explore2FS (http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/Explore2fs.htm) is a
utility to read and write ext2fs filesystems from Windows. You need to
have Administrator privileges to run it in Win2K, and it doesn't provide
seamless access. There's also a regular filesystem driver, available
from http://www.chat.ru/~ashedel/ext2fsnt/. The last time I tried it,
there were dire warnings about the read/write support being
experimental, but those don't appear on the web page any more.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: Wierd Lilo problem
Reply-To: This_news_group.invalid
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 15:04:29 GMT
At the lilo prompt I hit the tab key and enter
windows and Micro$oft comes up. Here is a copy of my /etc/lilo.conf
Be sure to do a /sbin/lilo to install any changes to /etc/lilo.conf.
$ cat /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
timeout=50
append="mem=128M"
other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda7
read-only
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000 14:00:53 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Lilo doesn't seem to like Windows. Now I don't blame it but I do need to
>boot it every so often.
>
>LILO version 21.5-1 and 21.5
>
>Kernel 2.2.17 and 2.2.16
>
>Drive is setup all reiserfs except for the Windows parts. Now I saw
>something about needing notail on / to work but lilo works just fine if I
>comment out the windows sections.
>
># LILO configuration created by QuickInst 21 Fri Jul 28 08:15:38 EST 2000
>boot = /dev/hda
>compact
>prompt
>timeout= 30
>delay = 30 # optional, for systems that boot very quickly
>vga = normal # force sane state
>root = current # use "current" root
>image = /boot/vmlinuz
> label = linux
>image = /boot/safe
> label = safe
>#other = /dev/hda1
># table = /dev/hda
># label = windows
>
>I've tried commenting out compact no difference. I've tried all the lilo
>options to no avail. I had the same problem a few months ago but upgrading
>at the time to 21.5 got it to work.
>
>Uncommenting the windows section ends up with:
>
>LILO version 21.5-1, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
>Extensions beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2000 John Coffman
>Released 24-Aug-2000 and compiled at 16:31:59 on Sep 30 2000.
>
>Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
>Merging with /boot/boot.b
>Secondary loader: 11 sectors.
>Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz
>Setup length is 4 sectors.
>Compaction removed 1119 BIOS calls.
>Mapped 1157 sectors.
>Added linux *
>Boot image: /boot/safe
>Setup length is 4 sectors.
>Compaction removed 1110 BIOS calls.
>Mapped 1147 sectors.
>Added safe
>Boot other: /dev/hda1, on /dev/hda, loader /boot/chain.b
>Compaction removed 0 BIOS calls.
>Fatal: Hole found in map file (alloc_page)
>Removed temporary file /boot/map~
>
>Any help would be great. I guess I could boot windows with a boot disk but
>lilo is much nicer.
>
--
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If the above breaks your system, it's yours and you keep both pieces.
Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
Do a, man command_here or cat command_here, before using it.
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From: "Jan Schaumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: news and mail client for linux
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 11:09:24 -0400
"dick dijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote::
> Hello,
>
> I am running Suse 6.4, does anyone has a good suggestion for a news
> reader and email client?
> ( KRN (news client does not run very well on my system), kmail works OK
> but maybe you got an even better suggestion)
My favorites:
News:
Pan - http://www.superpimp.org (for GUI) slrn -
http://slrn.sourceforge.net (for console)
Mail:
pine - http://www.washington.edu/pine
Other people seem to like:
News:
Gnus - http://www.gnus.org
Mail:
mutt - http://www.mutt.org
Gnus - http://www.gnus.org
For discussions on newsreaders please go to news.software.readers, for
discussions on mailreaders check out... hmm, is there no NG for
mail-readers in general? Maybe alt.comp.mail.misc or comp.mail?
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful
new world. We will see it when we believe it. -- Saul Alinsky
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: news and mail client for linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 15:30:42 GMT
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000 11:35:12 +0200, dick dijk wrote:
> I am running Suse 6.4, does anyone has a good suggestion for a news
> reader and email client?
> [ ... ]
'mutt' for mail, 'slrn' for news:
<http://www.mutt.org/>
<http://slrn.sourceforge.net/>
HTH,
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: CGI scripts do not work
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 15:39:12 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000 05:46:21 GMT, Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>vivekvp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> What has to be done to a webserver to allow cgi scripts to work.
>>
>> Right now I get this error:
>>
>> nternal Server Error
>
>Did you look at the error_log file? That should give you more info.
Also check the suexec_log if there is one in case files or directories are
too permissive. CGI or the directory it is in should not have more than
755 permission. If the directory has 775 or 777 permission, it will not
work under suexec (RedHat runs suexec by default and a default umask that
can trip you up).
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Error mouting Floopy
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 15:56:46 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 22:30:04 -0000, Yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hey, I use Red Hat 6.2, Kernel 2.2.15. When trying to mount my floppy I get
>a error saying "Error mounting floppy major or minor bad numbers". I was
>thinking of recompiling the kernel, but I wanted a few suggestions first.
>So can you please instead e-mail the answer if you know.
What command did you use? For example to mount a DOS/Win floppy (assuming
that you have an existing /mnt/floppy dir) would be:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
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From: "visor-palm John" <j$ohn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,cz.comp.linux.redhat-cz
Subject: Re: sony vaio F580 Notebook unable to install
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 09:13:31 -0700
Ok, did the text-mode install (by typing "text" at the boot prompt)
The install went fine, but when booting-up, there is no LILO prompt? Any
suggestions?
Thanks,
John
"Stig S�rensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:39d6eda3$0$1769$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> -Run the installer in textmode.
> -Try RH7.0.
>
> /Stig
>
> "visor-palm John" <j$ohn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8r5uqv$k5t$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Sony VAIO PCG-F580: Pentium III 650Mhz, 256Mb RAM, 6Mb video memory, 12
G
> > hard-drive
> > Display Adapter: NeoMagic MagicMedia256XL+ (v016)
> > Display: 15" XGA TFT
> >
> > RedHat 6.1 CD's
> >
> > The machine has Win98 on 2 partitions and there are 3 GB left to install
> > Linux.
> >
> > However, when I boot to the CD (or floppy) I first get the entry screen
> > which asks what type of install I want to do...Install RedHat Linux
(this
> is
> > the DOS-ish text window with the "boot:" prompt).
> > Then I press <enter> to do an install...the system goes through its
image
> > loading (vmlinux...) and then it says something like "unrecognized
> > card"...and it croaks...to the point where it says, system is safe to
> > reboot.
> >
> > Here is the output (that can be viewed)
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> > No valid modes found.
> >
> > When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full
> > server output, not jst the last messages
> >
> > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> > Traceback (innermost last):
> > File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 144, in ?
> > from gui import InstallInterface
> > File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gui.py", line 9, in ?
> > from gtk import *
> > File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 29, in ?
> > _gtk.gtk.init()
> > RuntimeError: cannot open display
> > install exited abnormally
> > sending termination signals...done
> > sending kill signals...done
> > unmounting filesystems...
> > /mnt/source
> > /dev/pts
> > /proc
> > you may safely reboot your system
> >
> > I have taken all network cards out of the system and it still does not
> allow
> > me to continue with the installation.
> > I have already checked out the stuff on
> > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ and
> > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~and1000/vaioF-series.html but it did not help.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
> >
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: MS Netmeeting under Linux?
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 16:16:30 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Mandrake 7 User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there any net conferencing program for linux that is compatible with
>MS Netmeeting?
Not sure, but have you looked at VNC (free) which is platform independent
and supports Linux? It can also be accessed from any Java capable web
browser if an OS has no viewer. It is the only way I know to easily
control a Windows box from Linux. It can also run a background X server
in Linux that can be accessed by Win or any other system.
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/index.html
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: radio
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 16:21:02 GMT
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000 14:15:56 GMT, Marzioux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there a method to listen to web-radio through linux os. (programs like
>real audio or windows media player)
real.com has realplayer for Linux for some time now. Just have to hunt
around their site a bit to find it.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting Sony SuperStation Tapes
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 12:01:43 GMT
James Silverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have a Sony SuperStation tape drive that is recognized on booting as
: hdd. Can anyone tell me how to mount a Superstation tape under Linux? I
: suspect that what I need to know is how to describe the formatting of
: the tapes. The machine is a dual boot system and the SuperStation is my
: regular backup unit for the Windows partition.
Firstly, as CBB mentioned in his response, you don't mount tapes.
Secondly, to the best of my recollection, the Sony Superstation doesn't
work on Linux. My recollection is that it is essentially the same as the
Aiwa bolt which also doesn't work (which is a shame becuase they were
reasonably-priced drives). I don't know the details, but according to
the knowledgeable people on the Linux-tape mailing list, those devices
have a thin layer of IDE/ATAPI interface pasted on top of some sort of
incompatible tape hardware. The IDE maintainer was apparently never able
to get it working by the time the manufacturer stopped mkaing the
drives.
Fred
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---- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of
heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven."
============================== Matthew 7:21 (niv) =============================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: no DRQ after issuing WRITE???
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 16:27:32 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 17:10:03 GMT, Doug Piercy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>After upgrading a Red Hat 5.2 machine to 6.2, I started regularly seeing
>these messages on the console and in /var/log/messages:
>
>hostname kernel: hdc: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
>hostname kernel: hdc: no DRQ after issuing WRITE
>hostname kernel: ide1: reset: success
>
>I had this problem even after wiping the drive and reinstalling Red Hat 6.2,
>which I had to do for other reasons.
>
>hdc is my backup drive, I don't use it for anything but backup storage and
>never get errors like this when I do write to it. After much searching I
>found out that these errors were getting generated by a cron.daily script
>that ran this command:
>
>/usr/bin/slocate -u -f "nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts" -e
>"/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net"
>
>I don't know what slocate does, or whether I even need it, but if I added my
>hdc drive (/backup) to the -e exclusion list, the errors go away.
slocate is the real name linked to the 'locate' command that allows you to
easily look up any file on your system. Very handy for finding files if
you don't know where to start looking. It updates its database of
filenames at about 4 AM every morning.
Maybe your hdc is just overheating. I had a similar problem with lost
interrupts and resets on hdc, my primary Linux drive. I found that that
my computer case was packed with lint in front of the inlet fan. I
cleaned that out and no problems since.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: Carsten Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rpm confusion
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 18:45:20 +0200
Hi out there,
I think I confused rpm.
1) I try to install MySQL:
'rpm -ihv mysql-3.22.32-36.i386.rpm'
I get: 'package mysql-3.22.32-36 is already installed'
2) I try to query MySQL:
'rpm -q -i MySQL'
I get: 'package MySQL is not installed'
3) I try to update MySQL:
'rpm -Uhv --force mysql-3.22.32-36.i386.rpm'
Everything seems to be ok, but
4) I try to query MySQL:
'rpm -q -i MySQL'
I get: 'package MySQL is not installed'
Is there anybody out with an idea ??
Best regards,
Carsten Mohr
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From: Matthew Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: getting mpg123 to launch
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 12:41:57 -0400
mpg123 came preinstalled with RH 6.2, but for some reason it won't
launch. when i double-click on the icon in the /usr/bin directory, it
just gives me an hourglass for a few seconds and then goes away.
i didn't realize that it came preinstalled and tried installing an older
version that i downloaded, which wasn't successful.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP ASAP: Trying to use PPP to across other computer with serial
port Trying to use PPP to across other computer with serial port
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 16:43:44 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>PLEASE HELP ASAP: Trying to use PPP to across other computer with
>serial port Trying to use PPP to across other computer with serial port
>
>I have two computers a desktop running Redhat 7.0 and a notepad running
>Redhat 6.2. I use to use PLIP to share data but someone told me that PPP
>is better and I been trying to get it to work.
I don't know of any reason PPP would be better than PLIP. In fact when
connecting an old 386, PLIP was much faster than PPP because the old
unbuffered 8250 UART could not cope with speeds beyond 9600 baud, while
PLIP would pass 40KB/s which is much faster than a V.90 modem. Although,
I did have to set the timeout in plip.c longer on the faster box so it
would not timeout waiting for the slow box to respond.
>I been running the following command on both computers
>
>pppd -detach crtscts lock <local ip>:<remote ip> /dev/ttyS1 38400& I am
>using a null modem cable so it should work.. if you can help in anyway
>please email me ASAP at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You may be forgetting 'passive' option which you at least need on the
first pppd, so it is still listening when you start the other one.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: "David Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Your RedHat 7.0 impressions?
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 16:50:36 GMT
Hey all! Anyone done anything with RH7.0 yet? Got a few questions for you,
but they can all be summed up in the question "Is it worth it to upgrade?"
RedHat doesn't say on their webpage what kernel version RH7 uses. Anyone
know?
One of their big "selling points" is a "cleaner, faster, more customizable
GNOME desktop and Sawfish window manager". Are there new versions of Gnome
and Sawfish that I'm not aware of, or are they aiming their sales pitch at
non-experienced Linux users?
I've heard nasty rumours that RH6.2 had a bug in the installer. Has anyone
had similar trouble installing/upgrading to RH7?
Any idea what the "power tools" disk is available from mirrors?
Thanks in advance for your opinions!
David
(for personal replies use d DOT perry at...)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Redhat: hard drive accessing
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 16:58:37 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I found that my Redhat6.2 tries to access my hard drive about every 5
>seconds. I'm using a 256M RAM P3 with 1G swap, So I am really curious
>why redhat access my HD so often.
>
>I didn't seem to notice this on my debian, maybe I'm wrong...
While your system does do various logging and flushing to disk, you might
see your drive light go on frequently when some program is simply checking
the cdrom to see if anything changed.
For example if you are running Gnome I think it is 'magicdev' that checks
the cdrom. In Settings/Peripherals/CD Properties you can control if or
what it automatically does. KDE may have something similar.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
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From: Loukas Kallivokas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Memory per process question
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 11:56:38 -0500
Hi,
how can I check how much is the per process max memory limit that the
kernel assigns and how to change it? We are running RH6.2 with 1GB of
physical memory. We have an old fortran code with static arrays that
hits the limit at 512MB.
Thanks
Loukas
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