From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 28 00:32:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA05371 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 00:32:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dogbert.modempool.kth.se (dogbert.modempool.kth.se [130.237.10.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA05364 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 00:32:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from palm@admin.kth.se) Received: from localhost (dogbert.modempool.kth.se [130.237.10.194]) by dogbert.modempool.kth.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA00337; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:30:52 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from palm@admin.kth.se) To: grog@lemis.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GIMP vs FreeBSD 2.2.7, X11R6.3 with Xaccel 4.1 server From: Christer Palm In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:07:57 +1030" <19981028140757.O25247@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19981028140757.O25247@freebie.lemis.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.93 on Emacs 19.34 X-URL: http://www.admin.kth.se/~palm/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19981028093051B.palm@admin.kth.se> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:30:51 +0100 X-Dispatcher: imput version 980905(IM100) Lines: 58 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: GIMP vs FreeBSD 2.2.7, X11R6.3 with Xaccel 4.1 server Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:07:57 +1030 Message-ID: <19981028140757.O25247@freebie.lemis.com> > On Monday, 26 October 1998 at 10:54:01 +0100, Christer Palm wrote: > > From: Greg Lehey > > Subject: Re: GIMP vs FreeBSD 2.2.7, X11R6.3 with Xaccel 4.1 server > > Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:21:05 +1030 > > Message-ID: <19981026102105.V16609@freebie.lemis.com> > > > >> On Sunday, 25 October 1998 at 12:22:53 +0100, Christer Palm wrote: > >>> From: Greg Lehey > >>> Subject: Re: GIMP vs FreeBSD 2.2.7, X11R6.3 with Xaccel 4.1 server > >>> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 19:49:12 +1030 > >>> Message-ID: <19981025194912.T16609@freebie.lemis.com> > >>> > >>>> I'd guess it's contention for swap space. Both GIMP and Netscape are > >>>> very memory hungry. How much memory do you have? How much swap? > >>>> Have you checked /var/log/messages? What does the server say when it > >>>> crashes? > >>>> > >>>> Greg > >>> > >>> The log says werry little, i have 96M memory and 200M swap > >>> > >>> Oct 23 17:30:43 dogbert /kernel: real memory = 100532224 (98176K bytes) > >>> Oct 23 17:30:43 dogbert /kernel: avail memory = 95784960 (93540K bytes) > >>> > >>> Oct 24 19:55:14 dogbert /kernel: pid 7765 (tvtwm), uid 14004: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) > >> > >> I don't believe that's all it says. > >> > >>> By the way Gimp works fine together wiht Netscape with fvwm, BUT i > >>> don't like fvwm. > >> > >> Ah. Now I think I understand. The X server isn't crashing, the > >> window mangler is. OK, where did it die? How about a stack trace? > > > > I cant do better than this! > > > > Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. > > #0 0x23b02 in ?? () > > Oh well, at least it establishes that it's a window manager problem, > not the X server. I'd recommend a different window manager. > Thanks for your cooperation, I have done some other tests and RTFM work too and understand that it is possible to strip FVWM windows down to a nice level. I will be happy with that. For your information I runned tvtwm from the FVWM menu. GIMP worked much better, it core dumped after loading a verry color rich (large file) file, smaller picts worked. My theory is a screen memory bug in tvtwm some where. /Christer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message