> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Covici)
> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 03:18:44 -0400
> Hi. I am using dosemu-0.99.11 and while running it and after exiting
> the program I was in I got the message "unable to handle paging
> request ..." and ever after that I couldn't login to any virtual
> console, I couldn't even get back the virtual terminal dosemu was
> using, and I couldn't do too much else -- even shutdown didn't work.
Maybe it is the problem I had, on RedHat 5.1 (2.0.34) and 5.2 (2.0.36)
with many versions of DosEmu. The problem is DosEmu allocates lots of
memory, until OS cannot assign more. Unfortunately, ulimit does not
affect it - is the ulimit really working on Linux?
When you have no free memory, you cannot even shutdown the system.
What can be done? Large swapfile, and when free space on it drops
below, say, 64MB, kill the task which allocates most of memory.
Jerzy
