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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 20:00:07 +1000
From: Stephen Hocking <sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au>
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> 
> Further, using the latest XFree86 betas against a -current system
> shows strange effects.  Running the server with the (new) Xkb
> extension enabled immediately freezes the machine after the first
> couple of X clients popped up.  Running without the extension only
> seldom freezes, but i can give a good bet in that ~ 50 % of all
> attempts to login my notebook via PPP (@ 115 kbps on a plain 16450
> UART) would freeze it, too.  I'm not yet sure whether to blame XFree86
> or FreeBSD for these effects.
> 
>
This is a known problem with the xkbd stuff - it's trampling memory somewhere 
& people are still trying to figure it out. It shows up more on FreeBSD than 
others becuase of Pohl's u-beaut space-saving-super-swift malloc code. A 
number of Xfree86 people and members of the X Consortium (Hi Kaleb) are 
working on it.

	Stephen
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