From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 8 06:46:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB6637B40B for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 06:46:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail8.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ABCB43FE9 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 06:46:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnmills@speakeasy.net) Received: (qmail 21553 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2003 13:46:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) ([216.27.162.100]) (envelope-sender ) by mail8.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 8 Aug 2003 13:46:46 -0000 Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h78Ds4K04097 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:54:04 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:54:04 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills X-X-Sender: jmills@localhost.localdomain To: FreeBSD-questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Xclock grows and grows (Was Re: How can I check for swap space?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John Mills List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 13:46:49 -0000 Freebies - A bit more information on my 'startx' thrashing. On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, John Mills wrote: > On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, John Mills wrote: > > > I will mostly run services and ssh console sessions, so that might be > > enough. However I also wanted to run some lightweight X11 setup so I > > installed 'fvwm2' and have a 'mostly working' XF86Config. When > > [ordinary-user] I execute 'startx' the system gradually fills all of RAM > > and swap then locks up the X-server. Granted my space is small, but this > > still looks wrong to me. > > My '~/.xinitrc' is a one-liner: "exec fvwm2". > Now it just says: "fvwm2" I created a swapfile, and thereby doubled my swap space to 184MBy, thanks to 'dd' and 'vnconfig'. (I remembered I've been here before and went back through my mail!) 'startx' still proceeds until it fills all available memory. In particular, 'top' shows the size of 'xclock' growing while other processes seem OK. 1) Where do I go to remove 'xclock' from the list of processes brought up by 'fvwm2'? 2) Does this [mis]behavior sound familiar to anyone? 3) I am still running 4.8-Release installed from CD 1. I have not updated any packages yet. If there are some 'strongly recommended' updates, what would they be? Keep those cards and letters coming! Thanks. John Mills john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu