Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 01:52:51 -0400 From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> To: Kyle Mestery <mestery@cobber.cord.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with afterstep and swap Message-ID: <19970416015251.01090@vinyl.quickweb.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.87.9704151906.A6802-0100000@cobber>; from Kyle Mestery on Tue, Apr 15, 1997 at 07:54:06PM -0500 References: <Pine.3.87.9704151906.A6802-0100000@cobber>
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On Tue, Apr 15, 1997 at 07:54:06PM -0500, Kyle Mestery wrote: > > Hi, I have a problem with my system where my swap space is slowly filled > up until there is none left and the system becomes unusable. I have a > P150, 40MB FPM RAM, EIDE disks running FreeBSD-2.2.1 cvsupped as of April > 11. I am also running the afterstep window manager. I am using > Netscape, about 8 xterms, and doing some mild compiling, and after a > couple of hours, anywhere from 4 to 20, the system runs out of swap > space. I have 74MB of swap space. I believe that somewhere there is a > memory leak, but I am not sure which program is causing it. Anyone have > any ideas? Take a look and see how much memory your X-Server is using. If it's a lot, disabling BACKING_STORE will dramitically reduce the memory size of the X-Server. On my machine (using the Xinsde AccelX server) Netscape was a pig with BACKING_STORE.... I turned it off, and now my Xserver size stays consitent at a more reasonable figure. -Mark > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > Kyle A.D. Mestery | --* POWERED BY FREEBSD *-- > 1901 20th St. S #4 | Network Support Specialist > Moorhead, MN 56560 | Concordia College, Moorhead, MN > 218-236-6359 | "My other computer runs UNIX also" -TJ > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark finger mark@quickweb.com for my PGP key and GCS code ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable. -Sir Peter Imbert
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