From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 06:16:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA18138 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 06:16:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.EUnet.hu (mail.eunet.hu [193.225.28.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA18133 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 06:16:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.EUnet.hu, id PAA02925; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 15:16:45 +0200 Received: by CoDe.CoDe.hu (LAA01453); Tue, 6 Aug 1996 11:53:06 GMT From: Gabor Zahemszky Message-Id: <199608061153.LAA01453@CoDe.CoDe.hu> Subject: Re: Is XFree memory release problem under 2.1.5 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 11:53:05 +0000 (GMT) Cc: ahill@interconnect.com.au In-Reply-To: from "Anthony Hill" at Aug 5, 96 10:20:29 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > There is a problem under 2.1-R where XFree wont release memory. This > results in swap slowly filling up until the machine freezes, or until X > is shut down. Has this been fixed/worked around in 2.1.5 ? Hmm. It looks like, that the problem is not with FBSD, but with X, so ask the XFree group. -- Gabor Zahemszky -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky