Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 19:20:46 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: kimc@w8hd.org (Kim Culhan) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xaccel leaks? Message-ID: <199701111820.TAA08255@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970111124340.19559C-100000@moonpie.w8hd.org> from Kim Culhan at "Jan 11, 97 01:02:56 pm"
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> > > On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > > > On one of my machines (some older 2.2-current) - where one user has the habit of > > leaving many X apps like ghostview/gs standing on for days - top is showing > > that Xaccel is now at 11M SIZE (9000K RES). swapinfo shows 37% of 44M swap. > > > > What could I do about it? Approach Xinside? Rebuild ghostview with another > > malloc lib? Run XFree86? > > > > In that machine we have a Matrox Millenium 4MB and XFree86 support was a bit > > sparse until recently. > > This machine is a Pentium 100 running 3.0-current and Xinside's v2.1 X > server, and has a Millenium 4MB and 32MB main memory. > > Top shows Xaccel is now at 7.92M SIZE (7156K RES) swapinfo shows > 38% of 131072M swap. 131 GB swap is a lot :-) > > This is running the CDE with vic, vat, wb and sdr plus a few 'dtterms' > > What would be reasonable to expect? The problem with the machine was that it often ran out of swap space - OK, 44 MB swap isn't much but is has 32MB memory and for a single user with a couple of color_xterms this should suffice. Since that happened I'm logging tops output to a file every five minutes watching it from time to time. > > regards > --kim > > kimc@w8hd.org > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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