From owner-freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 11 07:54:51 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1C066AA; Sat, 11 May 2013 07:54:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms16-1.1blu.de (ms16-1.1blu.de [89.202.0.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8691CC29; Sat, 11 May 2013 07:54:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [46.244.151.254] (helo=localhost.my.domain) by ms16-1.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ub4dl-0004El-CO; Sat, 11 May 2013 09:54:49 +0200 Received: from localhost.my.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.my.domain (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r4B7sl2S002497; Sat, 11 May 2013 09:54:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id r4B7sl8g002496; Sat, 11 May 2013 09:54:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 09:54:46 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/178478: xorg-server-1.7.7_6,1 from FreeBSD ports SVN head mangles display Message-ID: <20130511075446.GA2445@tinyCurrent> References: <201305101215.r4ACFOlC089501@oldred.FreeBSD.org> <201305101220.r4ACK0RJ016749@freefall.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201305101220.r4ACK0RJ016749@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT r214444 (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Con-U: 0-guru X-Originating-IP: 46.244.151.254 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: Ports bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 07:54:51 -0000 Re/ the question of Niclas: Yes, I have used memtest(8) and swapped the complete RAM chips of 1GB. Yesterday I watched carefully what the system was doing. I launched memory intensive jobs (some 'make', firefox with flash and chrome with flash too), and saw with top(1) that the Free mem was going down to some 30 MBytes, short before the display mangel occurred. The EeePC was running (for years already) w/o any swap device. As I wild guess I added in /etc/rc.local the creation of some 1 GByte swap device with: #!/bin/sh echo creating swapfile of 1 GB /bin/rm -f /swapfile.tmp dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile.tmp bs=1m seek=1k count=0 /sbin/mdconfig -a -t vnode -u 1 -f /swapfile.tmp || /bin/sh /bin/rm -f /swapfile.tmp /sbin/swapctl -a /dev/md1 Since this there are no more problems, so far. I have no certain indicator in log files about insufficient memory 9or so like, but it seems to have been the lack of swap. We can close the issue. Thanks matthias