Further to the UPDATE...
dxkerneltuner is the answer to providing enough processes
to avoid running out. have a look at ps and you will see
that CDE soaks up two processes for the price of one so
you will need to at least double the normal 64. I opted
for rather more just to be safe.
I was using eager swap so dead CDE is not a symptom of
lazy swap.
This problem will go away when I get around to putting some
decent window managers on the system.
Time to petition DEC to put some window managers onto
the Freeware distribution.
Thanks again to all who responded. If I ever manage to
nail just what it is that freezes CDE I'll let you
all know.
k.mcmanus_at_gre.ac.uk -
http://www.gre.ac.uk/~k.mcmanus
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Dr Kevin McManus ||
School of Computing & Math Science ||
The University of Greenwich ||
Wellington St. Woolwich ||Tel +44 (0)181 331 8719
London SE18 6PF UK ||Fax +44 (0)181 331 8665
Received on Tue Jul 29 1997 - 20:18:54 NZST