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Date:      Tue, 3 Apr 2001 21:04:30 +0000
From:      Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>
To:        Fenix <fenix@c1.barbara.ds.polsl.gliwice.pl>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD + Xfree
Message-ID:  <01040321052503.00322@mark9.vladsempire.net>
In-Reply-To: <200104021921.f32JLuv00286@c1.barbara.ds.polsl.gliwice.pl>
References:  <200104021921.f32JLuv00286@c1.barbara.ds.polsl.gliwice.pl>

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On Mon, 02 Apr 2001, Fenix wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've old machine (p120+24mb+54mb swap) and I have one big problem
> with it. When I run Xfree and some programs, freebsd very fast reaches
> swap limit, and when swap usage is 100% I can't do anything. No key response, nothing works
> even ctrl+alt+delete only disk is reading something. Why this happens 
> on so ql system, or maybe there is work-around ? please help, I need Xfree 
> so I can't just stop using them.
> 
> And one more thing. When I start for first time XFree swap usage
> is low (about 10%-15%). When I run some programs swap usage incraces to
> about 60%-80% but when I close all programs and there is only XFree (like
> I start XFree for first time) still swap usage is about 60%-80%. How I can
> free up swap space  back to 10%-15%, or maybe I missed something..
> 
> 
> fnx
> 
> 

Which window manager are you using?  Your box is really on the edge
of what it takes to do a passable job of running X.  I'd suggest
blackbox.

Josh



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