Re: problems with the X server
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:43:34AM +0200, Cristian Constantin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 03:56:09PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 08:17:31PM +0200, Cristian Constantin wrote:
> > > hi!
> > >
> > > i have upgraded recently to woody which provides:
> > >
> > > xserver-xsun 3.3.6-11 X server for 8-bit Sun framebuffers
> > >
> > > from time to time the xserver freezes and the hdd is heavly accessed;
> > > (i'm not having more than 3 or 4 netscape windows and an xemacs one...)
> > > i'm getting in the /var/log/messages something like:
> >
> > How much memory do you have? Running X + Netscape + Xemacs is a sure way
> > to hit swap space (which it sounds like you are doing).
>
> cristian: 96 megs. it did not happen when i used an older xserver (don't
> remember the ver. though...)
> Another strange thing is that it happens after the xserver runs for
> 2 or 3 days... memory leak or something?... but where?...
I have seen memory leakage in atleast netscape, up to 60 megs sometimes. I
usually don't ever run it more than a day at a time.
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