Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:07:57 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Christer Palm <palm@admin.kth.se> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GIMP vs FreeBSD 2.2.7, X11R6.3 with Xaccel 4.1 server Message-ID: <19981028140757.O25247@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19981026105401W.palm@admin.kth.se>; from Christer Palm on Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 10:54:01AM %2B0100 References: <19981026102105.V16609@freebie.lemis.com> <19981026105401W.palm@admin.kth.se>
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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. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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