From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 11 06:57:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA75237B404 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 06:57:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail8.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB86643F75 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 06:57:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnmills@speakeasy.net) Received: (qmail 21467 invoked from network); 11 Aug 2003 13:57:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) ([216.27.162.100]) (envelope-sender ) by mail8.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 11 Aug 2003 13:57:26 -0000 Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h7BE51122280; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:05:02 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:05:01 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills X-X-Sender: jmills@localhost.localdomain To: FreeBSD-questions In-Reply-To: <200308091431.aa69058@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Ian Dowse Subject: Re: Xclock grows and grows (Was Re: How can I check for swap space?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John Mills List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:57:28 -0000 Ian - Thanks for the suggestions. They have given me more symptoms. On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Ian Dowse wrote: > In message > , Joh n > Mills writes: [Concerning problems with a newly-installed 4.8-Release from the CD set. > >'startx' still proceeds until it fills all available memory. In > >particular, 'top' shows the size of 'xclock' growing while other processes > >seem OK. > ... > >2) Does this [mis]behavior sound familiar to anyone? > I've seen this before when the "fontconfig" system got confused. Try > running > fc-cache -fv > as root. If that doesn't fix it, try: That also dumped on ever-growing swap after first creating cache for the 100DPI fonts and while working on the 75DPI > echo "*clock.render: false" >> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XClock This did allow 'startx' to get past starting 'xclock', but the next thing I tried, 'xterm', then repeated the fill-swap-and-dump scenario. I guess I don't know if the problem is related to X11, bad usage of swap space, or some other memory issue. I should try some non-X11 activity (other than the underlying OS activity) and see what happens. I noticed on installation that many packages related to Gnome hadn't been read successfully from the CD. Perhaps I have a defectively written CD behind all this. John Mills john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu