From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 17 17:08:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA17434 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 17:08:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA17426 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 17:08:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail2.uunet.ca (mail2.uunet.ca [142.77.1.15]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id RAA08299 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 17:08:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from why.whine.com ([205.150.249.1]) by mail2.uunet.ca with ESMTP id <123079-12869>; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 20:06:52 -0400 Received: from why (why [205.150.249.1]) by why.whine.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA01589; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 20:06:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 20:06:27 -0400 From: Andrew Herdman X-Sender: andrew@why To: Mark Mayo cc: Kyle Mestery , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with afterstep and swap In-Reply-To: <19970416015251.01090@vinyl.quickweb.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk How do you turn off backing store on the XFree86 Servers? Andrew On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Mark Mayo wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 1997 at 07:54:06PM -0500, Kyle Mestery wrote: > > > > Hi, I have a problem with my system where my swap space is slowly filled > > up until there is none left and the system becomes unusable. I have a > > P150, 40MB FPM RAM, EIDE disks running FreeBSD-2.2.1 cvsupped as of April > > 11. I am also running the afterstep window manager. I am using > > Netscape, about 8 xterms, and doing some mild compiling, and after a > > couple of hours, anywhere from 4 to 20, the system runs out of swap > > space. I have 74MB of swap space. I believe that somewhere there is a > > memory leak, but I am not sure which program is causing it. Anyone have > > any ideas? > > Take a look and see how much memory your X-Server is using. If it's a lot, > disabling BACKING_STORE will dramitically reduce the memory size of > the X-Server. On my machine (using the Xinsde AccelX server) Netscape > was a pig with BACKING_STORE.... I turned it off, and now my Xserver > size stays consitent at a more reasonable figure. > > -Mark > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > Kyle A.D. Mestery | --* POWERED BY FREEBSD *-- > > 1901 20th St. S #4 | Network Support Specialist > > Moorhead, MN 56560 | Concordia College, Moorhead, MN > > 218-236-6359 | "My other computer runs UNIX also" -TJ > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com > RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark > > finger mark@quickweb.com for my PGP key and GCS code > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to > get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be > thought incapable. -Sir Peter Imbert >