Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 10:24:26 +1000 (AEST) From: Carl Makin <cmakin@nla.gov.au> To: mika ruohotie <bsdchat@shadows.aeon.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux faster thasn FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970926101404.5305C-100000@gadget.nla.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <199709250826.LAA14306@shadows.aeon.net>
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On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, mika ruohotie wrote: > > > There seems to be something weird with Afterstep 1.0, XFree86 3.3.1 and > > > possible Netscape. :( > > I'd strongly suspect Memscape, er, Netleak, er, Netscape. Nice effort, > i'm not sure which program it is, but rather than suspecting netscape > this time, i'd point my fingers to afterstep... Afterstep it was. Jason Andresen came up with the solution. Here is an extract of his email to me; > There used to be a problem with Afterstep if you used gradients with > more than 32 colors (or so). > If you think that might be the problem, check your .steprc and look for > TextureMaxColors I edited my .steprc and uncommented the following line; TextureMaxColors 32 32 32 32 and restarted Afterstep. It's memory usage halved and has been stable ever since. > the only time i ran out of swap happened when i forgot to restart, and > had some 3 xv's running simultaneously... I was running out of swap up to twice daily. :( Netscape and the Gimp running together were a fatal combination. > ofcourse, netscape tells me often, also in another machine where i use > s3v, that it's out of mem, i need to free up some (like it'd be on When I start Netscape it uses about 16Mb and launches another process (DNS Helper?) that uses another 7Mb. I've seen several of these "DNS Helpers" running. Carl. -- Carl Makin <C.Makin@nla.gov.au> 'Work +61 2 6262 1576' "Speaking for myself only!"
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