[KLUG Members] RH 8 - GUI Problem

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<P>&nbsp;<BR><FONT FACE=3D"Monospace,Courier">Hi,</FONT></P><P><FONT FACE=
=3D"Monospace,Courier">I do have swap set. I havent adjusted sysctl paramet=
ers (what are they?)<BR></FONT></P><P>No, I dont get any messages like what=
 you said while running an application from cmd line.</P><P>The kernel vers=
ion is 2.4.18-19.8.0</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Other error messg I get :</P><P>1) =
FAM open failed, FAM Err no =3D0</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>2) Xlib extension &quot=
;Render&quot; missing on display &quot;0.0&quot;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I see t=
hem &nbsp;after starting X from terminal and switching to same terminal by =
hitting &quot;Ctrl-Alt-F1&quot;</P><P>what do these error messages mean?</P=
><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thx,</P><P>Sanjay</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><BR><FON=
T FACE=3D"Monospace,Courier">You should have swap, but it is possible to ru=
n out of memory even with<BR>swap space available and free. &nbsp;Some oper=
ations require physical RAM,<BR>and if the kernel can't make some available=
 fast enough - boom. &nbsp;Thats<BR>why it never lets &quot;free&quot; drop=
 to zero. &nbsp;But the last of hard disk<BR>activity and the nasty VM mess=
age make me think he has a rather nasty<BR>goblin living amongst the pipes.=
<BR></FONT><BR><FONT FACE=3D"Monospace,Courier">Have you adjusted any sysct=
l parameters?&quot;<BR></FONT><BR><FONT FACE=3D"Monospace,Courier">When you=
 attempt to run an app (from the command line) do you ever see a<BR>message=
 like -<BR>&quot;error: trying to vfree() nonexistent vm area<BR> segmentat=
ion fault (core dumped)&quot;<BR>?<BR></FONT><BR><FONT FACE=3D"Monospace,Co=
urier">What does &quot;uname -a&quot; say? &nbsp;I've got a hunch it says 2=
.4.18-11<BR></FONT><BR><BR><BR><FONT FACE=3D"Monospace,Courier">=5F=5F=5F=
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