From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 11 11:14:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA29527 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 11:14:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from DNS.Lamb.net (root@DNS.Lamb.net [207.90.181.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA29522 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 11:14:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from PacBell.TelcoSucks.org (ulf@PacBell.TelcoSucks.org [207.90.181.5]) by DNS.Lamb.net (8.8.4/8.8.2) with SMTP id LAA00623; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 11:25:37 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970111111533.00a7ac8c@Gatekeeper-3.Lamb.net> X-Sender: ulf@Gatekeeper-3.Lamb.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 11:15:34 -0800 To: Christoph Kukulies , kimc@w8hd.org (Kim Culhan) From: Ulf Zimmermann Subject: Re: Xaccel leaks? Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have here a 2.1.5R machine with Xaccel and a Matrox Millenium 2MB. The X is now up for about 5 days and Xaccel is at 7432K RES size (1024x768 in 256 resolution). It grows a bit more over the time, but mostly if I use Netscrap more. Ulf. At 07:20 PM 1/11/97 +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: >> >> >> On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Christoph Kukulies wrote: >> >> > >> > On one of my machines (some older 2.2-current) - where one user has the habit of >> > leaving many X apps like ghostview/gs standing on for days - top is showing >> > that Xaccel is now at 11M SIZE (9000K RES). swapinfo shows 37% of 44M swap. >> > >> > What could I do about it? Approach Xinside? Rebuild ghostview with another >> > malloc lib? Run XFree86? >> > >> > In that machine we have a Matrox Millenium 4MB and XFree86 support was a bit >> > sparse until recently. >> >> This machine is a Pentium 100 running 3.0-current and Xinside's v2.1 X >> server, and has a Millenium 4MB and 32MB main memory. >> >> Top shows Xaccel is now at 7.92M SIZE (7156K RES) swapinfo shows >> 38% of 131072M swap. > >131 GB swap is a lot :-) > >> >> This is running the CDE with vic, vat, wb and sdr plus a few 'dtterms' >> >> What would be reasonable to expect? > >The problem with the machine was that it often ran out of swap space - >OK, 44 MB swap isn't much but is has 32MB memory and for a single user >with a couple of color_xterms this should suffice. > >Since that happened I'm logging tops output to a file every five minutes >watching it from time to time. > > >> >> regards >> --kim >> >> kimc@w8hd.org >> >> >> > >--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de > > ----------------------------------------------------------- Alameda Networks, Inc. | Ulf Zimmermann (ulf@Alameda.net) 1525 Pacific Avenue | Phone: (510)769-2936 Alameda, CA 94501 | Fax : (510)521-5073