Re: 5.2 Performer on Irix 4.0.5
Nathaniel Bletter (nat++at++od.sri.com)
Thu, 23 Feb 95 16:41:29 -0800
> pfInit: mmap failed for /dev/zero
Yes, this error message was improved over two years ago.
I'm impressed that people are still running Performer 1.0.
You know we released Performer 1.2 for 4.0.5 as well as 5.
However the problem here is not DGL, but rather trying to run a
Performer 1.0 4.0.5 binary on a 5.2 machine with the strict
virtual memory accounting that was added in 5.1. The 4.0.5
executable will run on a 5.X machine if you add sufficient
virtual swap space with swap(1M), e.g. swap -a -v <virtual
length>, but in general running a 4.0.5 executable on a 5.X
machine is not recommended, particularly on Onyx, because of
multiprocessing restrictions that IRIX requires for compatible
lock handling.
Admittedly, this error occured with an old version of smallfly, that was
probably Performer 1.0, but if I run a Performer 1.2 application on the IRIX
5.2 machine, displayed on the IRIX 4.0.5 machine, I get NO error message
whatsoever. The program just seems to die. So could this be a DGL error?
Nat Bletter
SRI International
nat++at++od.sri.com
(415) 859-4358
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