Slave buffer problem

[Scott Schwartz schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu]

Luther Huffman <lutherh@infinet.com> writes:
|      I'm running Plan 9 as term on a Pentium machine. A few days ago, I
| began to have some of my applications crash mysteriously, freezing the
| windows on the system. A message is displayed: "8 1/2: slave buffer: no free
| mount rpc buffer". 

I've started seeing that too, after applying the latest boddle plus the
devvga.c:/gscreen.ldepth patch that someone posted to the list (Is it a
correct fix?).  ^t^tx reports that there are very few bytes free, like
22K (16M machine with kernerlpercent=40, vgasize=1280x1024x8).  If it
gets really low, things start to hang, with processes Queueing or
Scheding in Malloc or New.