Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 20:06:27 -0400 From: Andrew Herdman <andrew@why.whine.com> To: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> Cc: Kyle Mestery <mestery@cobber.cord.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with afterstep and swap Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970417200611.1353A-100000@why> In-Reply-To: <19970416015251.01090@vinyl.quickweb.com>
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How do you turn off backing store on the XFree86 Servers? Andrew On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Mark Mayo wrote: > 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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