Interactive 386/ix 2.0.1 and X11.3 1.0.0

[Jack F. Vogel]

In article <20702 at adm.BRL.MIL> WIESEL%DKAUNI0P.BITNET at cunyvm.cuny.edu (Joachim Wiesel) writes:
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>When I have started X (via the startx-script), sendmail disappears!
>The process seems to die silently. I have 3.75 MB of memory in my machine.

There is a memory-management problem in the 2.0.1 kernel, when some processes
get swapped out they no longer appear in the process table or some such
thing, I forget the exact details. And since you are trying to run X in such
a small amount of memory sendmail is swapped out and "disappears", if you
run quite a few X clients you will notice some of them disappearing as well.
(What "disappear" means is that a ps listing will not show them.)
This has to be one of the most annoying bugs in 2.0.1 and I would strongly
recommend that you call ISC for the 2.0.2 upgrade which fixes it. If you have
purchased since May 31 I believe it is free.

>After restarting it via:
 
>/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q30m &
 
>I get these error messages:
>..date time... local sendmail[3533]:NOQUEUE:SYSERR:getrequests:cannot bind:\
>                ERROR 112
>..date time... local sendmail[3533]:cannot get connection
 
What I said above implies that you only think the process has died and thus
when you try and start another copy it cannot bind to the already bound port.
At least I am about 95% sure this is what is happening.

GET THE UPGRADE!! I think your problem will disappear, oh yes, almost as impor-
tant, if you really want to run X also get more memory!!!! :-}

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