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Date:      Mon, 13 Jul 1998 10:52:29 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Display locked when X server dies 
Message-ID:  <199807130122.KAA06241@cain.gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Jul 1998 20:48:46 -0400." <19980712204846.A9285@rtfm.net> 

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> This makes sense. The reason that it is a "problem" is that XFree86
> is doing this to itself, it seems at random. I could just be moving
> the mouse from one xterm to another, when *wham*. This has been
> happening since a long's ago -current, around the same time I stopped
> seeing the "recommend more swap space" messages on console. Any ideas?
Hmm.. well you could really actually be running out of swap and the system 
could be killing your X process..
Do you stay logged in for a long time? If so you may be encountering a memory 
leak of some description, which is making your system run out of RAM.

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