Seppo_Jarimo (seppo++at++vision3d.helsinki.sgi.com)
Thu, 23 Dec 1993 13:16:45 +0200
Thanks for your quick response.
PFTMPDIR had nothing to do with it, but deleting the third swap file
seen in the swap -l list below helped.
So it is a kind of counter overflow type of bug.
Merry Christmas,
- Seppo Jarimo
cypress 1% /etc/swap -l
lswap path dev pri swaplo blocks free maxswap vswap
2 /var/tmp/.swap.virtual
128,278 2 0 0 0 0 80000
1 /dev/swap
128,273 0 0 524288 524288 524288 524288
3 /dev/dsk/dks4d4s1
128,1089 0 0 3928480 3928480 3928480 3928480
cypress 2%
On Dec 22, 11:03am, Jim Helman wrote:
> Subject: Re: Performer Fatal (9):
> You should be able to run the town demo by setting PFTMPDIR
> to /usr/tmp (or another temporary directory with 20-30MB
> free).
>
> If the 2GB machine is being used for real Performer
> development, I'd suggest getting Performer 1.2 as soon as
> it's released. Or 1.2a72 if the user is SGI internal or a
> customer you closely support. More test coverage on huge
> machines would be nice.
>
> We don't have one that big, and as far as I know 1.1 was
> never tested on a large system. Your message probably
> indicates that a long is wrapping and the space allocation
> is getting confused. Can you send the output of 'swap -l'?
>
>
> rgds,
>
> -jim helman
>
> jimh++at++surreal.asd.sgi.com
> 415/390-1151
>
>-- End of excerpt from Jim Helman
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