From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 16 10:02:16 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA00300 for current-outgoing; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 10:02:16 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA00287 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 10:02:14 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA01401; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 19:02:10 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA03336 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 19:02:10 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA20974 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 18:55:31 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507161655.SAA20974@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: XFree86 and swap To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 18:55:30 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) In-Reply-To: <199507161634.MAA05179@crh.cl.msu.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at Jul 16, 95 12:34:02 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 582 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Charles Henrich wrote: > > Unfortunatly in the X server situation, it helps but the server still grows > amazingly large over time. Using gnumalloc just increases time. My server > grows to 15m within a day of starting it, and stays there :(. This is due to memory fragmentation when applications are requesting storage for (too) many pixmaps. You can try to limit the datasize for the server and see what would crash then... :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)