"no buffer space available" on Win2K
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Thu May 1 15:43:00 GMT 2003
(Karl - No need to cc me on messages. Please don't.)
Karl Waclawek wrote:
>>All,
>>I am running xfree/cygwin on 2 machines:
>>a win98 machine which has a corporate vpn client installed and a win2k
>>machine without the vpn. I have installed winpoet (pppoe) dsoftware on
>>both. the 2k machine is a work machine attached to the local LAN, the 98
>>machine is a home machine on which I use xfree to telecommute. I have
>>not had any problems using xfree on either of them, although there seems
>>to be some kind of memory problem ahich causes XWin to crash a few times
>>a day(-multiwindow -clibboard) This crashing seems to be more common
>>with the server test 81 version released yesterday, but I have had no
>>problems co-existing with the VPN. I might also add that my ISP is fixed
>>wireless, so in concert with the VPN I am NOT able to FTP large files
>>from home to work, but the xfree installation, other than being a little
>>slow (due to the VPN being slow + network traffic) is fine. I also have
>>Exceed 6.2 loaded on both machines, so that doesn't seem to have an effect.
>>Hope this helps.
>
>
> This may be of interest to Harold too.
>
> I tested on a different machine (a training machine) and could not
> trigger the "no buffer space available" error. I tried with ssh and telnet.
> So, it seems it is a problem local to my machine.
>
As I suspected. Now we just need to find out which piece of hardware,
which driver, or which piece of software is to blame. Only you can do
that for us.
> Btw (for Harold):
> Once OpenSSH is installed, XWin sessions (the way I used them, i.e. remotely)
> always start up ssh-agent processes, even if SSH is not used, and never kill them.
> I have to go into task manager and kill them manually - I had about 15 of these
> processes when closing the X session after 30 minutes.
> This happened on all 3 machines I tested on. Is it wrong to just close
> the X session window (Alt-F4)?
>
> Karl
The ssh-agent processes are a side-effect of the fact that you are using
startxwin.sh to startup (as opposed to startxwin.bat). I inherited
those scripts from the original author and have taken a policy of not
changing things that I don't understand. I have no clue what ssh-agent
does, I don't pretend to have a clue, and I don't care to ever have a
clue. I will follow advice if someone is willing to explore what the
heck ssh-agent does and tell me either to keep or remove that line near
the top of startxwin.sh that runs it. I think we had discussed this
before a long time ago, but either the discussion was not decisive, or I
forgot to remove that line.
Either way, someone else is going to have to help with this one.
Harold
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