On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 06:50:26PM -0600, Mike Miller wrote:
> I was still running rxvt v. 2.7.1 on my Solaris server. A user's rxvt
> process managed to fill every bit of swap which made it so that I could
> not start any new processes - not even to see what was running. I had to
> create more swap space, then find the errant process. Really nasty.
>
> Has this been observed before and repaired in a more recent version?
> I've been running rxvt 2.7.1 for 4 years and haven't had a problem until
> today. I suppose this means that the conditions that will cause such an
> event are rare. The user was running an ssh connection in the window:
>
> rxvt -e ssh blah...
>
> I don't know if that is relevant. Let me know if you know anything about
> this issue. Thanks in advance.
>
I'm still running rxvt version 2.6.2 on our Solaris systems here and
I've never seen anything like that. On my desktop Sparc Ultra I have
eight or so rxvt windows running all day with no problems (plus any I
start up temporarily).
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Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
