Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 21:51:05 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: paul@FreeBSD.org Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, imp@village.org, rsnow@legend.txdirect.net, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: XFree86 and swap Message-ID: <199507171221.VAA03178@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199507171130.MAA24214@server.netcraft.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Jul 17, 95 12:30:54 pm
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Paul Richards stands accused of saying: > I've been running into problems. I've got a 16Mb box with 64Mb of > swap. I use xdm so the server runs permanently. Every few days I > have to kill X so it frees it memory because it ends up with ALL > of it. I've had cron jobs die over night because of a lack of > memory which isn't good at all. That sounds like a memory leak. I've grown the S3 server to 30 or 40M by _really_ punishing it (run 5 copies of xboing one day for a laugh 8), but I haven't gone much beyond that. > Sounds like the XFree86 folks are trying to address this problem in their > server but it's probably time for someone to address the general malloc > problem. This is already happening; there are several new mallocs under consideration, at a guess I'd say you'll see the winer in 2.2 > Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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