From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 5 01:31:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA14168 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 01:31:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA14019 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 01:28:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA13670 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 10:30:17 +0100 Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 10:30:17 +0100 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Message-Id: <199602050930.KAA13670@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: xdm+X (2.1R) leaks? Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I upgraded a 1.1.5.1R machine here over the weekend to 2.1.0-R (486/40, 8MB, IDE ,XF86/312/S3,20 MB root/27MB swap) and I put xdm into rc.local to start X automatically. This was on saturday noon. When I wanted to telnet/ftp into the machine 24 hours later I got connection (ping also worked) but the system was nearly unusable, that is, telnet and ftp never got to the login prompt. I tried to login at the local console to no avail. It seemed the machine was heavily paging out during my attempts to login. I did a hard reset after a couple of minutes. I suspect there being some memory leak either with X alone or when being running via xdm. Is that a known problem? --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de