Linux-Hams archive - June 1997: Re: xd700 and Linux 2.1.42

Re: xd700 and Linux 2.1.42

Dave Stewart (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Mon, 09 Jun 1997 16:47:23 -0400

>Yes, it could be something like this. If the avalaible memory indication is
>too low, the system may not work, waiting for some more memory. So if the
>/proc/meminfo has changed, this could be the problem.

OK... the way I'm understanding is this:

xfbb checks /proc/meminfo (by what process it does this, I'm not clear on),
and if it gets an indication of low memory... or actually anything other
than an indication of sufficient memory, then it hangs, waiting for a
process to free some memory.

Since /proc/meminfo is different now, xfbb never gets an indication of
sufficient memory... so it just waits forever.

Question: is xfbb checking /proc/meminfo directly, or is it using another
program to check it?

Next question: how do we avoid this problem? A 2.1.41+ version of xfbb?