Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:30:51 +0100 From: Christer Palm <palm@admin.kth.se> To: grog@lemis.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GIMP vs FreeBSD 2.2.7, X11R6.3 with Xaccel 4.1 server Message-ID: <19981028093051B.palm@admin.kth.se> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:07:57 %2B1030" <19981028140757.O25247@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19981028140757.O25247@freebie.lemis.com>
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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Subject: Re: GIMP vs FreeBSD 2.2.7, X11R6.3 with Xaccel 4.1 server Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:07:57 +1030 Message-ID: <19981028140757.O25247@freebie.lemis.com> > On Monday, 26 October 1998 at 10:54:01 +0100, Christer Palm wrote: > > From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> > > Subject: Re: GIMP vs FreeBSD 2.2.7, X11R6.3 with Xaccel 4.1 server > > Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:21:05 +1030 > > Message-ID: <19981026102105.V16609@freebie.lemis.com> > > > >> On Sunday, 25 October 1998 at 12:22:53 +0100, Christer Palm wrote: > >>> From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> > >>> Subject: Re: GIMP vs FreeBSD 2.2.7, X11R6.3 with Xaccel 4.1 server > >>> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 19:49:12 +1030 > >>> Message-ID: <19981025194912.T16609@freebie.lemis.com> > >>> > >>>> I'd guess it's contention for swap space. Both GIMP and Netscape are > >>>> very memory hungry. How much memory do you have? How much swap? > >>>> Have you checked /var/log/messages? What does the server say when it > >>>> crashes? > >>>> > >>>> Greg > >>> > >>> The log says werry little, i have 96M memory and 200M swap > >>> > >>> Oct 23 17:30:43 dogbert /kernel: real memory = 100532224 (98176K bytes) > >>> Oct 23 17:30:43 dogbert /kernel: avail memory = 95784960 (93540K bytes) > >>> > >>> Oct 24 19:55:14 dogbert /kernel: pid 7765 (tvtwm), uid 14004: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) > >> > >> I don't believe that's all it says. > >> > >>> By the way Gimp works fine together wiht Netscape with fvwm, BUT i > >>> don't like fvwm. > >> > >> Ah. Now I think I understand. The X server isn't crashing, the > >> window mangler is. OK, where did it die? How about a stack trace? > > > > I cant do better than this! > > > > Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. > > #0 0x23b02 in ?? () > > Oh well, at least it establishes that it's a window manager problem, > not the X server. I'd recommend a different window manager. > Thanks for your cooperation, I have done some other tests and RTFM work too and understand that it is possible to strip FVWM windows down to a nice level. I will be happy with that. For your information I runned tvtwm from the FVWM menu. GIMP worked much better, it core dumped after loading a verry color rich (large file) file, smaller picts worked. My theory is a screen memory bug in tvtwm some where. /Christer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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