From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 2 15:54:35 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id PAA04235 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 15:54:35 -0700 Received: from bronze.coil.com (bronze.coil.com [198.4.94.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA04229 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 15:54:33 -0700 Received: from localhost (echet@localhost) by bronze.coil.com (8.6.4/8.6.12) id SAA03167; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 18:57:54 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 18:57:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Eric Chet echet@coil.com" X-Sender: echet@bronze.coil.com To: David Greenman cc: serges@umr.edu, freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: 2.0.5 Eager to go into swap In-Reply-To: <199508022102.OAA00999@corbin.Root.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 2 Aug 1995, David Greenman wrote: > Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 14:02:52 -0700 > From: David Greenman > 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