Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 23:44:20 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: rsnow@legend.txdirect.net (Rob Snow) Cc: paul@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: XFree86 and swap Message-ID: <199507161414.XAA01095@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950715161249.8992B-100000@oasis> from "Rob Snow" at Jul 15, 95 04:17:10 pm
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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 [[
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