From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 2 19: 5: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F26437B71D for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 19:04:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from mark9.vladsempire.net (hutch-314.hutchtel.net [206.10.68.14]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id VAA17622; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:04:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Josh Paetzel To: Fenix , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD + Xfree Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 21:04:30 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="" References: <200104021921.f32JLuv00286@c1.barbara.ds.polsl.gliwice.pl> In-Reply-To: <200104021921.f32JLuv00286@c1.barbara.ds.polsl.gliwice.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01040321052503.00322@mark9.vladsempire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 02 Apr 2001, Fenix wrote: > Hi > > I've old machine (p120+24mb+54mb swap) and I have one big problem > with it. When I run Xfree and some programs, freebsd very fast reaches > swap limit, and when swap usage is 100% I can't do anything. No key response, nothing works > even ctrl+alt+delete only disk is reading something. Why this happens > on so ql system, or maybe there is work-around ? please help, I need Xfree > so I can't just stop using them. > > And one more thing. When I start for first time XFree swap usage > is low (about 10%-15%). When I run some programs swap usage incraces to > about 60%-80% but when I close all programs and there is only XFree (like > I start XFree for first time) still swap usage is about 60%-80%. How I can > free up swap space back to 10%-15%, or maybe I missed something.. > > > fnx > > Which window manager are you using? Your box is really on the edge of what it takes to do a passable job of running X. I'd suggest blackbox. Josh > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message