Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 18:57:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Eric Chet echet@coil.com" <echet@echet> To: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> Cc: serges@umr.edu, freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: 2.0.5 Eager to go into swap Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.950802185457.3103A-100000@bronze.coil.com> In-Reply-To: <199508022102.OAA00999@corbin.Root.COM>
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On Wed, 2 Aug 1995, David Greenman wrote:
> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 14:02:52 -0700
> From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
> To: serges@umr.edu
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com
> Subject: Re: 2.0.5 Eager to go into swap
>
> >Well I dont know what those "mechanisms" are and I (unlike the original
> >poster) cant compare 2.0.5 with a previous version of FreeBSD, but I can
> >say that I experience excessive swapping on my system. I have a 486DX50
> >with 20 megs of core and ~20 megs of swap space. With a minimal X
> >desktop with Netscape and 2 xterms running I can *easily* exhaust the virtual
> >memory on my system! This is ofcourse, after running Netscape (or xv) for
> >a long time (> 1hour continuous use). I usually have to kill the server
> >and restart things.
>
Hello
One thing that might help a little, get XF311link.tgz from
ftp.freebsd.org. Relink your X server with -lgnumalloc this helped
me. My XF86_Mach64.gnumalloc server stays around 2200K most of
the time.
--Eric
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