Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 11:15:34 -0800 From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Lamb.net> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, kimc@w8hd.org (Kim Culhan) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xaccel leaks? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970111111533.00a7ac8c@Gatekeeper-3.Lamb.net>
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I have here a 2.1.5R machine with Xaccel and a Matrox Millenium 2MB. The X is now up for about 5 days and Xaccel is at 7432K RES size (1024x768 in 256 resolution). It grows a bit more over the time, but mostly if I use Netscrap more. Ulf. At 07:20 PM 1/11/97 +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: >> >> >> 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 > > ----------------------------------------------------------- Alameda Networks, Inc. | Ulf Zimmermann (ulf@Alameda.net) 1525 Pacific Avenue | Phone: (510)769-2936 Alameda, CA 94501 | Fax : (510)521-5073
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