"no buffer space available" on Win2K

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Thu May 1 20:47:00 GMT 2003


Karl,

I have wanted to ask, but thought it unnecessary, how much memory you 
have on this machine?  Is it in the range of 64 MB or is it a more just 
256 MB or more?

Harold

Karl Waclawek wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Harold L Hunt II" <huntharo@msu.edu>
> To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 11:43 AM
> 
> 
>>>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.
> 
> 
> Well, I tried these things:
> 
> Newest Windows update. No help.
> I applied the registry settings from MS Knowledge Base article 196271:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;196271
> 
> This appeared to extend the time until the error happened, but it still
> happened, especially when I opened a second instance of Kylix remotely,
> which seems to put a heavy load on X.
> 
> At this point I am giving up - I spent already more time than I should,
> considering I have access to Exceed licenses.
> 
> Thanks to everybody for their help,
> 
> Karl



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