From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 16 14:06:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA07181 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 14:06:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA07098 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 14:04:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA16353 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 23:04:39 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.6.12) with UUCP id XAA24571 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 23:04:07 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.5/keltia-uucp-2.9) id WAA17889; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:43:54 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970416224354.59658@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:43:54 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with afterstep and swap References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.67 In-Reply-To: ; from Kyle Mestery on Tue, Apr 15, 1997 at 07:54:06PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#3195 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Kyle Mestery: > 11. I am also running the afterstep window manager. I am using This is your problem. I've not tried 1.0pre5/6 but with 1.0pre2, I was slowly eating all my memory/swap... (64 MB RAM + 192 swap !!). Now that I've switched to fvwm2.0.45, all is fine and I have 30% swap on average (with more windows !). Afterstep is very nice but it is much too slow and eating too much memory. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #41: Sun Mar 23 23:01:22 CET 1997