From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 16 07:01:30 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA25015 for current-outgoing; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 07:01:30 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA25005 ; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 07:01:21 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id XAA01095; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 23:44:21 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507161414.XAA01095@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: XFree86 and swap To: rsnow@legend.txdirect.net (Rob Snow) Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 23:44:20 +0930 (CST) Cc: paul@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Rob Snow" at Jul 15, 95 04:17:10 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1312 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Rob Snow stands accused of saying: > > > What clients are you cycling through on that server? Also, have you > > > tried linking it with gnu malloc? This should result in much better > > > memory utilization, though with an unknown impact on stability. > > > > Mainly netscape, apart from the usual xterms and a few odds and > > ends. > > Interesting. You may have seen my posts about "how to add swapfile?" > because my swap kept getting eaten and never flushed. Last night I did > a test and started X and everything looked fine until I ran Netscape and > browsed around. When I finished my Xserver was 14M. (in about 45minutes) That's not terribly suprising. > BTW, It stayed at 14MB when I exited Netscape. Either I'm behind the times, or you are failing to understand a fundamental fact about memory allocation under BSD (and IIRC most unices.) Processes can only ever grow, they can never shrink. > Rob Snow -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[