From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 4 05:04:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA06553 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 05:04:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA06548 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 05:04:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.4/8.6.9) id IAA25483; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 08:04:00 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199704041304.IAA25483@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: FWD: RE: Netscape Memory Usage and v2.2.1-release In-Reply-To: <01IHAI34977W9GWP7L@BUFFALOSTATE.EDU> from Dave Hummel at "Apr 4, 97 02:28:31 am" To: HUMMDN36@BUFFALOSTATE.EDU (Dave Hummel) Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 08:03:59 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] 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 > > On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Doug White wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Anthony Hill wrote: > > > > > > > > Does FBSD2.2.1/Xfree still have the problem with xapp.s not freeing up > > > memory ? (Every release I hope I have seen the last of this.) > > > > Hm, I've never noticed this. > > Funny - its been a bane of mine for a couple of years. Find some big fat > X app (doesnt have to be that big - Netscape is fine) , start it up and > kill it a few times, and watch your swap go.. till X freezes, then > reboot, and do it again. > > Every release I think it will be fixed this time.... > It is fixed -- you need alot more swap. If you exit out of X periodically, and most of the swap usage is freed -- that will show that the problem is insufficient swap. On a heavily loaded X based system, you can need 100MB or more!!! You also should have at least 2X memory for swap anyway. John