Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 21:16:04 -0500 From: bab@cypress.com (Barry Boes/CADC Datacomm CAD) To: andrew@pubnix.net Cc: imp@village.org, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uptime report Message-ID: <199607120216.VAA25222@onyx.cadc> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960711184219.4080C-100000@guardian.fortress.org> (message from Andrew Webster on Thu, 11 Jul 1996 18:44:33 -0400 (EDT))
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> Very easy to reproduce, run netscape for a couple of days. It seems that > when it allocates memory for all those .gif and .jpg icons and pictures, > the memory becomes fragmented and is never recovered fully. > > After a while you run out of swap space. > > Happens on an SGI running IRIX 5.3 as well as under FreeBSD 2.1.0-stable > > Solution, quit X every so often, all your memory comes back. > > One could then deduce that the leak is somewhere in X11R6. As another data point, I have also seen Suns running Solaris 2.5 and the openwindows version of X do the same thing. I have had the X server alone consume 300 Mb of swap over a months time. Kill the X server and it all comes back. However, ours might be a different problem since killing the X server frees the swap space. Warner specifies that the used swap remained used even after killing the X server. - Warner : you did kill the X server, right? Your original message says some xdm processes were still running?
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