Return-Path: william@bourbon.usc.edu Delivery-Date: Fri Oct 24 11:59:27 2008 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on merlot.usc.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (bourbon.usc.edu [128.125.9.75]) by merlot.usc.edu (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m9OIxRCx007035 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:59:27 -0700 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bourbon.usc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m9OJ9dIx018580 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:09:39 -0700 Message-Id: <200810241909.m9OJ9dIx018580@bourbon.usc.edu> To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu Subject: Re: Problem with nunki Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:09:39 -0700 From: Bill Cheng Someone wrote: > I am having some problem with nunki. It is not giving permission > to open 2 sessions, even if it opens it has no prompt and my > session1 gives me "No more processes" if I give any command, even > for ps. One session is working fine. It was ok till sometime back > and started giving these problems with out any reason. Please > help me find a solution to the problem. Awaiting your reply. I'm sorry, but there is no solution to this problem! Nunki.usc.edu is a shared machine that many students use to do their assignments. I'm seen some simulators (used for EE classes) that eats up all the CPU cycles on nunki when it got close to some assignment due dates. The only thing you can do is to protect yourself from the effect of things like this. In general, you should always: Plan for the worst and hope for the best! One thing you can do is to start your work early! This is also why I suggested that you should try cygwin. Of course, the down side is that you need to write portable code and that can be more work. But then again, it's great to be able to write portable code. This makes you more valuable and more independent on nunki being not so busy. I've heard that Ubuntu Linux can be installed from Windows. It can partition your harddrive and install Linux a newly created drive. But you should only try this if you have a way to reinstall Windows just in case things don't work. Again, for this, you have to write portable code. -- Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu