From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 27 19:39:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA13706 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 19:39:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA13701 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 19:39:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA16385; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:08:13 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id OAA26038; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:07:57 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981028140757.O25247@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:07:57 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Christer Palm Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GIMP vs FreeBSD 2.2.7, X11R6.3 with Xaccel 4.1 server References: <19981026102105.V16609@freebie.lemis.com> <19981026105401W.palm@admin.kth.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19981026105401W.palm@admin.kth.se>; from Christer Palm on Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 10:54:01AM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 26 October 1998 at 10:54:01 +0100, Christer Palm wrote: > From: Greg Lehey > Subject: Re: GIMP vs FreeBSD 2.2.7, X11R6.3 with Xaccel 4.1 server > Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:21:05 +1030 > Message-ID: <19981026102105.V16609@freebie.lemis.com> > >> On Sunday, 25 October 1998 at 12:22:53 +0100, Christer Palm wrote: >>> From: Greg Lehey >>> Subject: Re: GIMP vs FreeBSD 2.2.7, X11R6.3 with Xaccel 4.1 server >>> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 19:49:12 +1030 >>> Message-ID: <19981025194912.T16609@freebie.lemis.com> >>> >>>> I'd guess it's contention for swap space. Both GIMP and Netscape are >>>> very memory hungry. How much memory do you have? How much swap? >>>> Have you checked /var/log/messages? What does the server say when it >>>> crashes? >>>> >>>> Greg >>> >>> The log says werry little, i have 96M memory and 200M swap >>> >>> Oct 23 17:30:43 dogbert /kernel: real memory = 100532224 (98176K bytes) >>> Oct 23 17:30:43 dogbert /kernel: avail memory = 95784960 (93540K bytes) >>> >>> Oct 24 19:55:14 dogbert /kernel: pid 7765 (tvtwm), uid 14004: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) >> >> I don't believe that's all it says. >> >>> By the way Gimp works fine together wiht Netscape with fvwm, BUT i >>> don't like fvwm. >> >> Ah. Now I think I understand. The X server isn't crashing, the >> window mangler is. OK, where did it die? How about a stack trace? > > I cant do better than this! > > Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. > #0 0x23b02 in ?? () Oh well, at least it establishes that it's a window manager problem, not the X server. I'd recommend a different window manager. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message