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From: bguest@ateam.ems.cdc.com (Brandon Guest)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: X-station running out of memory
Keywords: X-station, memory
Date: 1 Oct 92 13:15:46 GMT
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of Control Data

In article <1ae790INNq55@agate.berkeley.edu> jdb@ocf.berkeley.edu (Justin D. Bukowski) writes:
>We have a 550 running simulations and also serving a couple of X-stations.

[descriptive info deleted]

>The researcher logs in to the AVS machine from the X-station
>and starts working. After some time displaying all sorts of pretty
>pictures, the X-station dies, displaying a cursor that looks like a
>thermometer showing 99% on a scale from 0 to 100. It doesn't take much

[some more descriptive information deleted]

>I think something is not releasing memory properly and, after a
>number of redraws, memory runs out. I don't think it's AVS since
>we've found similar behavior using PV-WAVE (another visualization
>program) over the network. Has anyone experienced this? Has
>anyone any ideas to determine what is killing the display?
>What about watching the display memory usage?
>
>I'll be happy to clarify the problem if necessary. Thanks.
>
>Justin Bukowski   jdb@ocf.berkeley.edu   jdb@condor.berkeley.edu


I also believe that there is some type of memory leak in the server
software associated with the IBM X-station.  We have a very similar
configuration to yours and see problems like you have described.  I
have found that the longer my X-station is in use the higher the 
probability that I will get the 'thermometer' thing when I try and
display certain graphics types of applications.  Once I get the 
thermometer thing I almost always have to reboot the X-station to 
get it back into a useful mode.  

I would be interested in any further information you get on this 
problem.

Brandon
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From: ghosh%bailey@cs.yale.edu (Bhaskar Ghosh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: f2ps etc
Date: 2 Oct 1992 17:19:20 -0400
Organization: /homes/na/ghosh/.organization
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i am trying to find the sources or executables for f2ps, fig2dev, etc
which are necessary if xfig is to produce any hard copies. 

please send me email if you have pointers to ftp sites or the like.
i do not read this news group regularly. 

thanks a tonne in advance. 

- bhaskar.

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From: fede@asterix.ncs.mainz.ibm.com (Federico Quincke/131000)
Subject: Re: X-station running out of memory
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 92 15:22:24 GMT
Reply-To: quincke@AIXServ.Mainz.IBM.de
Organization: AS Software Service AIX / IBM Germany
Keywords: X-station, memory

In article <1992Oct1.133819.28261@ichips.intel.com>, tmcconne@sedona.intel.com (Tom McConnell~) writes:
|>
|>   One more thing, and then I'll be quiet (no really :). IBM has an application
|> that can watch the resource usage of the X server on the Xstation. If they are
|> willing, you might be able to get a copy of it. They call it "Xstation Monitor",
|> and the executable is called "xmonitor". I have a feeling that it is an
|> internal tool, but you can always ask.
|>
|>     Tom McConnell
|> --

From the output of the "man xmonitor" command:

"Enables monitoring of the X.25 traffic on an X.25 port."

...so i do not believe that it has something to do with the Xstation's
X server... It is a command shipped with the "bosext2.x25app.obj" LPP.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: marc@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (Marc Pawliger)
Subject: New product announcements available via anonymous ftp
Organization: IBM Advanced Workstations Division, Palo Alto
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 00:47:15 GMT

Folks,

I have put new IBM AIX and '6000 related product announcements out for
anonymous ftp from ibminet.awdpa.ibm.com (192.35.233.1) in the directory
pub/announcements.  The file 00INDEX describes the contents of all the
files, since the file names are just the (very non-descriptive)
announcement numbers, i.e. "191-026" 

The new (and changed, marked with a '+') announcements are:

Hardware:

+   192-243:  IBM RISC SYSTEM/6000 MEMORY AND STORAGE DEVICES
    192-254:  WITHDRAWAL IBM RISC SYSTEM/6000 SELECTED FEATURES
    192-264:  WITHDRAWAL IBM SELECTED RISC SYSTEM/6000 FEATURES:
              HIGH-PERFORMANCE 24-BIT 3D COLOR GRAPHICS PROCESSOR, 24-BIT
	      Z-BUFFER; SOLID RENDERING OPTION AND 24-BIT COLOR GRAPHICS
	      FRAME BUFFER UPGRADE

Software: 

+   292-479:  IBM AIX SYSTEMVIEW NETVIEW/6000 VERSION 2 RELEASE 1
    292-562:  PROFESSIONAL CADAM VERSION 3 RELEASE 4
    292-563:  IBM CAD/CATIA DATA EXCHANGE RELEASE 1.3 -- REPRICED AND
              ENHANCED 
    292-574:  VALISYS VERSION 1 RELEASE 4 FOR THE IBM RISC SYSTEM/6000 FAMILY
    292-575:  VALISYS HOST AND PS/2 VERSION 1 RELEASE 4 LICENSED PROGRAMS
    292-578:  SYSTEMVIEW OVERVIEW
    292-584:  IBM NETVIEW DISTRIBUTION MANAGER RELEASE 4 FOR MVS
    292-595:  CATIA VERSION 3 RELEASE 2.5 MAINTENANCE RELEASE FOR THE RISC
              SYSTEM/6000 FAMILY
    292-596:  CATIA VERSION 3 RELEASE 2.5 MAINTENANCE RELEASE FOR MVS AND VM

Marketing:

+   392-216:  IBM RISC SYSTEM/6000 DEVELOPER DISCOUNT PROMOTION MODIFICATION
    392-226:  PRICE CHANGES IBM AIX VERSION 3.1.5

Education (new category):

    492-173:  IBM EDUCATION ANNOUNCEMENT SUMMARY

Announcement Summaries:

    C92-016:  ANNOUNCEMENT SUMMARY - OCTOBER 6, 1992


As always, for more information please contact your friendly local IBM SE.


+  Marc Pawliger    IBM Advanced Workstations Division    Palo Alto, CA   +
|   Internet  marc@awdpa.ibm.com                UUCP  uunet!ibminet!marc  |
|    IBMinet  marc@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com         phone  (415) 855-3493      |
+       VNET  MARCP at AUSTIN              IBM phone  T/L 465-3493        +
From: jgabriel@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Ing. Gabriel Ruiz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: NIS netgroups under AIX 3.2
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:07:44 GMT


 I'm trying to use the NIS netgroups in our machines, but I'm 
having one trouble. I have a netgroup file like this:

netgroup1 (,user1,),(,user2,),(,user3,)

Now I have a NIS client machine with the next entry in the final
line of /etc/passwd:

+@netgroup1

The trouble is that i just can login, in the NIS client, with
the user1 account. Is there some trouble with the netgroup
file sintax? 
I try this other way:

netgroup1 (,user1,) (,user2,) (,user3,)

with same result.

any help will be appreciated... thanks


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: ente@aix01.rz.fht-mannheim.de (Karsten Winkovics)
Subject: max fs size
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 11:47:08 GMT
Organization: Fachhochschule fuer Technik Mannheim
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Hi, netpeople.

I posted this recently, but somehow the article didn't make it to distribution.

Sorry, if this is an FAQ, but I need to have this one figured out quickly:

Waht is the maximum file system size under AIX3.2???

Rgds
KW
From: jpe@ee.egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Q: Adding a second pseudo-tty (PTY) devices in AIX 3.2
Date: 1 Oct 92 19:29:42 GMT
Organization: Duke University EE Dept.; Durham, NC

Is it possible to add a second (or subsequent) PTY devices under AIX 3.2?
As I have mentioned in earlier postings, my central machine is a Model 350,
and I've noticed recently that usage of my ptys has reached peaks in the
60s.  PTY0 only allows 64 links, so I need to add a second PTY.  If anyone
knows how to do this (SMIT, INFO, etc. haven't proven to be very informative
on this), I would greatly appreciate some help.

-John
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener)
Subject: Re: statd and the missing machine
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 06:41:14 GMT
Distribution: na
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York

In article <Bv5A2s.8K7@ssesco.com> cwc@ssesco.com (Craig W. Carlson) writes:

>Recently we removed one of the RS6000's from our network (permanently
>I'm afraid).  This is usually a fairly simple exercise since it means
>removing references to the machine form all the system tables, but
>for some reason one of our machines doesn't want to forget about
>the recenltly departed and continuously prints the message:

>        rpc.statd: cannot talk to statd at carob

>where "carob" is of course the name of the machine we removed.

>Does anyone know where these messages are coming from?  I have looked
>everywhere on the machine that is generating these messages and can find
>no remaining referneces to "carob".  I even did a recursive grep on all
>of the file systems and couldn't find the name.  Any ideas?

Try looking around in /etc/sm and /etc/sm.bak

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From: mfh@math.chalmers.se (Martin Hansson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Console output to a window?
Date: 6 Oct 92 16:42:01 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology

Is there a way to redirect console output to a window whilst running X?
The C flag doesn't seem to work for xterm and I havn't seen anything for the
aixterm.

	/Martin


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: shair@barolo.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob Shair)
Subject: Re: RS6000 M320 memory upgrade (help please)
Reply-To: rmshair@chgvmic1.vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Champaign
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 14:42:55 GMT

ivan@ne.ncsu.edu (Ivan Maldonado) writes:

>We have just received a box for a 16Mb to 48Mb upgrade on
>our two RS6000 model 320's.  Unfortunately, I see no set of
>instructions attached so I suspect it must be a trivial
>task.  Before I embark into this (this weekend), I'd appreciate
>if some of you could share their experiences and hand out some
>free advice to me.

If you bought the memory from IBM, installation and testing by the
IBM Customer Engineer is included in the price.  Just call 
1-800-426-7378 (IBM-SERV).

If you bought it from a third party, it depends on whether you have a 
free memory slot, whether your memory upgrade consists of a new board
or of SIMMs.  It could be as easy as GROUNDING YOURSELF TO THE MACHINE
and plugging a board into an empty memory slot (on the left side of the
system, when facing it from the front).

Call your vendor.  (IBM I hope).


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: xinmin@cain.anu.edu.au (Xinmin Wang)
Subject: Xarchie on the IBM Xstation
Organization: School of Mathematical Sciences, Australian National University
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 06:46:13 GMT

Does anybody have the experience of running xarchie on the IBM Xstation 120?
I have a problem of displaying it. Currently there is no typing cursor in the
`search term' box so nothing appears when I type the keyword I want to search
for. This Xstation's host is a RISC/6000 running AIX 3.2 and has got X11R5
installed. Xarchie works fine on the host's console and other kind of X 
terminals connected to the same host. Therefore I assume that xarchie has been 
installed properly and the problem might lie in the Xstation configuration or
X11R5 configuration.

Any suggestions are welcome.
From: woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: max fs size
Date: 29 Sep 92 14:36:56 GMT
Reply-To: woan@cactus.org
Organization: Austin School of Hardknocks

In article <zh_pw1s_@aix01.rz.fht-mannheim.de> ente@aix01.rz.fht-mannheim.de (Karsten Winkovics) writes:
>Waht is the maximum file system size under AIX3.2???

2GB currently, I believe.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Subject: Re: Debuging Segmentation Violation Fault
Summary: SENTINEL handles it
Keywords: Segmentation Violation
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 10:47:42 GMT

In article <32@shady.UUCP>, kevin@shady.UUCP (Kevin Smith) writes:
> As other people have responded, this is most likely a problem with someone
> overrunning their malloc'ed buffer and corrupting malloc's pointers.  These
> types of problems are notoriously difficult to debug.  A usefull technique

Our product, SENTINEL, is designed to make this kind of problem resolution
easy (so easy, in fact, that SENTINEL usually finds the problems before you
are aware that they are there).  

We are in the process of porting the product to the RS6000 and it should be
ready in approx 3 weeks.

Email if you would like additional informatin.

Conor

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From: jdh@bu-pub.bu.edu (Jason Heirtzler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: async IO on aix 3.2
Date: 3 Oct 92 04:46:43 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Information Technology

Hmm.. strange silence on the net to my question if anyone has
managed to do async IO in AIX 3.2..

Here's a repost of my program, with an interesting twist:

  1.  link it without -lbsd
  2.  run it (it fails..)
  3.  link it with -lbsd
  4.  run it (it works!)
  5.  link it again without -lbsd (i.e. same as #1)
  6.  run it again (now it works!?)

..for extra credit:

  7.  logout and login again (make sure to get the same pty)
  8.  run it again (it works again?)

When you run the program you should see the message "GOT SIGIO!"
after you type return.  The BSD libraries must be doing something
wierd to the terminal, but it beats me what's going on.

---------------- cut here -----------------
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/signal.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>

int fun();
int sigflag = 0;

main()
{
  int i;

  signal( SIGIO, fun );
  if ( fcntl( 0, F_SETOWN, getpid()) < 0 ) {
    perror( "F_SETOWN" );
    exit( 1 );
  }

  if ( fcntl( 0, F_SETFL, FASYNC ) < 0 ) {
    perror( "FASYNC" );
    exit( 1 );
  }
  for ( ;; ) {
    sigblock( sigmask(SIGIO ));
    while (sigflag == 0)
      sigpause(0);
    /* stuff */
  }
}

int fun()
{
  sigflag++;
  printf( "GOT SIGIO!\n" );
}
---------------- cut here -----------------

[look for my followup posting on more AIX 3.2 async IO madness..]


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: tom@bim.itc.univie.ac.at (Tom Kovar)
Subject: Re: automount
Organization: Inst.of Theor.Chemistry,Univ.of Vienna,Austria
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 09:18:08 GMT

CALT@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU () writes:
: Hello --
: Has someone had automount working on RS6000's?

  Yes. And I am more than satisfied with it. What's the problem??
									Tom
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: jbf@wts.com (Jens B. Fiederer)
Subject: Re: RTS/CTS or hardware handshake on AIX PS/2 1.2.1
Organization: Wegmans Transaction Services
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 21:43:08 GMT

In article <Bv2p9y.5wz@unios.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE> gtimmer@amalthea.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (Dr. Gerald Timmer RZ) writes:
>Does anyone know how to initialize a serial device on a PS/2 with
>AIX 1.2.1 with ioctl() to use RTS/CTS or hardware handshake?
>
I can't help you with a method that causes hardware handshake with simple
initialization, but if you are desperate enough, you can use ioctl()
calls with TIOCMODS and TIOCM_RTS and such (I think this is "documented" 
in the termio.h header file).  I had to use such measures for a specific
type of modem line control (I had to raise RTS at certain times for 
specific millisecond intervals), and needed help (and minor OS patches
from Austin) to get things working close enough to timing.  I never
had to monitor the state of, say, the CTS pin - but the functionality
should be available.

IBM support at Austin was extremely helpful.  If the functionality is
critical for your project, and the PS/2 does not currently support it,
they would probably give you a patch that would MAKE the PS/2 do it,
and see whether the extended functionality could be made part of the
official OS in a later release.

Jens
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,alt.toolkits.xview
From: tmcconne@sedona.intel.com (Tom McConnell~)
Subject: Re: XView 3.0 libraries
Originator: tmcconne@sedona
Keywords: XView 3.0 AIX/6000 3.1.5 shared libraries
Organization: Intel Corporation
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 22:53:55 GMT


In article <1992Oct03.135432.114787@ipgaix.unipg.it>, peppe@ipgaix.unipg.it (G. Vitillaro) writes:
> I just finished to recompile XView 3.0 (the OPEN LOOK
> compatibility libraries) under AIX/6000 3.1.5 and MIT X11R5.
> I got compiled all the libraries and clients (clock, cmdtool,
> olwm, etc...) and (for what I can see, with th exception of
> cmdtool) the work fine.
> 
> My only problem is that the libs seem to be not shareble,
> so any clients have an executable bigger than 1.5Mb.
>    
> Did I something wrong durin the compilation (I used the 
> rs6k unofficial patches from export.lcs.mit.edu)?
> If not, is there any way to let XView behave as X11R5
> for libs?
> 
> Anyone got XView 3.0 compiled for AIX 3.2?
> Thank in advance for any clues, best Regards  Peppe
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> All comments/opinions are mine and don't represent those of IBM

  If you used my latest patch:

    -rw-r--r--  1 ftp ftp 29400 Aug 23 05:37 xview3_rs6k_unofficial.patch.Z

then all you have to do is set "WantToCompileSharedLibs" to "YES" in
./xview3/config/XView.cf, make sure you have "HasSharedLibraries" set to "YES"
in your X11 config directory (either ibm.cf or site.def), and it should work
fine.

  You can tell if you have shared library support by looking in
./xview3/config/XView.lib for a line like this:

    #if SharedLibXView && !defined(RsArchitecture)

    Cheers,

    Tom McConnell
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From: drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com (Sam Drake)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX and 3270
Date: 6 Oct 92 07:51:42 GMT
Organization: IBM Almaden Research Center

In article <92275.191406HARVEY@wuvmd.wustl.edu> HARVEY@WUVMD.Wustl.Edu (Bill Harvey) writes:
>Is the telnet server running under AIX on RS/6000 capable of
>supporting 3270 mode clients?  

No.

>                               In other words, can someone on a remote
>system use tn3270 (or the telnet client for VM or MVS in transparent
>mode) to connect to my AIX system, and get full 3270 terminal
>emulation?  

No, sorry.  But for users of real 3270s you can do something similar:
the 3174 control unit, with RPQ 8Q0935, supports ASCII-mode telnet client.
So users of real 3270s that are coax-attached to a 3174 can either use the
3270 as a 3270 to a host, or can use it to telnet to a RISC System/6000
or any other system supporting a "normal" (non-3270) telnet server.
The RPQ microcode in the 3174 will do all the dirty work of making the 3270s
look like ASCII terminals.


Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center 
Internet:  drake@almaden.ibm.com    BITNET:  DRAKE at ALMADEN
From: ehill@ehill.austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Need a backend for an ascii queue on ps printer
Date: 5 Oct 92 05:03:37 GMT
Organization: IBM, Austin

In article <matess.718149058@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> matess@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (Eliza Strickler) writes:
>Recently I upgraded operating systems from 3.1.5 to 3.2.
>I have an HP Laser Jet III connected to one RS/6000 that
>serves as the printer for all UNIX machines. I had a script
>for a backend so ascii files could be printed by 
>the Postscript printer. This script does not work in 3.2.
>Does anyone have a script that allows ascii to be printed
>on a HP Laser Jet III Postscript printer?
>
>Elizabeth
>
Have you tried the enscript command.  It converts ascii files
to Postscript.  Its part of the Transcript Package shipped with
AIX as part of the Text Formatting System.  The install image name
is txtfmt.ts.obj.

command:

enscript [-dpostscript-queue] ascii-filename

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Ed.
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