From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 04:17:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA05757 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 04:17:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.EUnet.hu (mail.eunet.hu [193.225.28.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA05723 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 04:17:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.EUnet.hu, id NAA16512; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 13:17:37 +0200 Received: by CoDe.CoDe.hu (MAA01297); Wed, 7 Aug 1996 12:55:07 GMT From: Gabor Zahemszky Message-Id: <199608071255.MAA01297@CoDe.CoDe.hu> Subject: Re: Is XFree memory release problem under 2.1.5 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 12:55:07 +0000 (GMT) Cc: bdqjl43@server4.bell-atl.com In-Reply-To: from "Vlad Markov" at Aug 6, 96 10:19:39 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Did you send a message about this docco to somebody in the tema? > In the Xfree documentation it says how to compile XFree to stop this problem. > Perhaps the distribution may be compiled using that method? > > > > > There is a problem under 2.1-R where XFree wont release memory. This > > > results in swap slowly filling up until the machine freezes, or until X > > > is shut down. Has this been fixed/worked around in 2.1.5 ? > > > > Hmm. It looks like, that the problem is not with FBSD, but with X, so > > ask the XFree group. -- Gabor Zahemszky -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky