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Date:      Sun, 16 Jul 1995 18:55:30 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: XFree86 and swap
Message-ID:  <199507161655.SAA20974@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199507161634.MAA05179@crh.cl.msu.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at Jul 16, 95 12:34:02 pm

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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. ;-)



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