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Billy Chambless (bi...@cast.msstate.edu) wrote:

: Another guy comes to my office and says: "I keep getting this
: "Out of Memory Error" .... I tried delting a buncha files, but it didn't
: seem to help much....

I've actually used systems where that might have been a valid approach.
This was on an old LTX analog IC test system (the model "DX/90" rings a
bell, but I could be wrong); I think it was based on some ancient Control 
Data hardware, but it's been a few years.  Anyway, once the hard drive 
filled up, most common commands became disabled, giving "disk full" 
errors.  When this happened, you couldn't do *anything* with the
system until you removed a few files.  Including, as it happened, 
deleting files.  So you'd get an error message saying something like 
"Cannot delete file.  Disk full."  At which point the mind would 
boggle briefly at what to do next.  We had two of these beasts 
networked together somehow, and it was a good thing, too, or I 
don't know how we'd ever have recovered from full hard drives.

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