From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 12 18:22:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA17127 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 18:22:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA17118; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 18:22:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA06241; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 10:52:29 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199807130122.KAA06241@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Nathan Dorfman cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Display locked when X server dies In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 12 Jul 1998 20:48:46 -0400." <19980712204846.A9285@rtfm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 10:52:29 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This makes sense. The reason that it is a "problem" is that XFree86 > is doing this to itself, it seems at random. I could just be moving > the mouse from one xterm to another, when *wham*. This has been > happening since a long's ago -current, around the same time I stopped > seeing the "recommend more swap space" messages on console. Any ideas? Hmm.. well you could really actually be running out of swap and the system could be killing your X process.. Do you stay logged in for a long time? If so you may be encountering a memory leak of some description, which is making your system run out of RAM. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message