From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 11 17:59:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA24001 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 17:59:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA23991 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 17:59:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id MAA09841; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 12:28:47 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199701120158.MAA09841@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Xaccel leaks? In-Reply-To: <199701111620.RAA07885@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from Christoph Kukulies at "Jan 11, 97 05:20:04 pm" To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 12:28:46 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Christoph Kukulies stands accused of saying: > > 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? Ignore it. An 11M X server (especially if it's running on a 24-bit display) is nothing unusual. Likewise, 44M of swap is really inadequate for that sort of machine. > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[