Re: 5.2 Performer on Irix 4.0.5

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Hugo Penafiel (penafiel++at++guild.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com)
Wed, 22 Feb 95 16:55:10 PST

nat++at++od.dri.com writes:

>>All performer programs we run fail at startup with messages such as
>>pfInit: mmap failed for /dev/zero

Under 4.0.5 I had the same problem and it turned out to be swap space. If
you run the command:
        swap -l

the system will tell you how much swap you have. Unfortunately I don't
remember how much more swap I added using the swap -a command.
Wouldn't it be nice if the computer would tell you that you don't have
enough swap instead of giving you the cryptic message:

        mmap failed for /dev/zero

You folks at SGI listening? ;-)

Hopefully somebody else can confirm (hopefully from experience) that swap
space is a problem in this case!

May your code be bug free and your boss on travel!
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