If you are truly running out of memory (i.e. you do not have stopped LaTeX jobs), the only solution is to kill off something you don't want and try again. To kill a process, you can use one of several methods:
% jobs [2] + Stopped telnet e40-342-8 % kill %2 [2] Terminated telnet e40-342-8 (wd: ~) %
athena% ps PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 344 mo I 0:04 -csh (csh) 422 mo IW 0:00 xinit .xsession 424 mo IW 0:00 sh /u2/users/jfc/.xserverrc 425 mo S N 85:16 /etc/Xibm -mpel -aed -bs :0 426 mo IW 0:00 sh ./.xsession 434 mo S 0:48 /usr/bin/X11/uwm 435 mo I 0:01 /usr/bin/X11/uwm -display unix:0.1 649 mo I 0:48 /u1/Xibm :0 -apa16 :1 651 p0 I 0:01 -sh (csh) 653 p0 I 0:09 uwm 807 p0 I 0:01 olcr 453 p1 I 0:02 -sh (csh) 451 p2 I 0:01 -sh (csh) 452 p3 S 0:13 -sh (csh) 826 p3 R 0:00 ps 457 p4 I 0:00 /usr/athena/lib/gnuemacs/etc/server 465 p6 I 0:22 /mit/discuss/rt/edsc/edscTo kill your window manager on display unix:0.1, you would type:
kill 435This form is useful, because not all programs are started interactively (and only interactively started programs can be found by jobs, while all programs can be found with ps).