Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 08:00:01 GMT From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/178478: xorg-server-1.7.7_6,1 from FreeBSD ports SVN head mangles display Message-ID: <201305110800.r4B801VD050054@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/178478; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: ports/178478: xorg-server-1.7.7_6,1 from FreeBSD ports SVN head mangles display Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 09:54:46 +0200 Re/ the question of Niclas: Yes, I have used memtest(8) and swapped the complete RAM chips of 1GB. Yesterday I watched carefully what the system was doing. I launched memory intensive jobs (some 'make', firefox with flash and chrome with flash too), and saw with top(1) that the Free mem was going down to some 30 MBytes, short before the display mangel occurred. The EeePC was running (for years already) w/o any swap device. As I wild guess I added in /etc/rc.local the creation of some 1 GByte swap device with: #!/bin/sh echo creating swapfile of 1 GB /bin/rm -f /swapfile.tmp dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile.tmp bs=1m seek=1k count=0 /sbin/mdconfig -a -t vnode -u 1 -f /swapfile.tmp || /bin/sh /bin/rm -f /swapfile.tmp /sbin/swapctl -a /dev/md1 Since this there are no more problems, so far. I have no certain indicator in log files about insufficient memory 9or so like, but it seems to have been the lack of swap. We can close the issue. Thanks matthias
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