on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:04:28PM -0800, Greg Strockbine (gstrock@pacbell.net) wrote:
> I'm running Debian potato, so I have the pre version 4 of XFree.
> It used to run like a champ. After installing a few more packages
> and doing an update here or there, it appears I have a memory
> leak.
>
> I barely have anything running compared to when it ran like
> a champ and now I'm always on the border line of memory
> starvation.
>
> with 256 Mbytes of ram I tend to have only 50 Mbytes or less free.
> a 128 Mbyte swap file is down to 36 Mbytes or less free.
>
> Here's what I do have running:
> - XF86-SVGA
> - bash
> - communicator-sm
> - deskguide_applet
> - emacs
> - gkrellm
> - gmc
> - gnapster
> - gnome-terminal
> - gtop
> - mini_commander applet
> - panel
> - sawfish
> - tasklist_applet
>
> wah! my machine is running like a win98 machine!
>
> used to be I could have 2 emacs sessions, an xterm,
> gqview, several netscape windows, and more and run
> for over a month with no lose of resources. It was rock
> solid, now its limping like a sick puppy.
>
> any ideas?
$ ( ps aux | head -1; ps aux | sed -e '1d' | sort -k 6nr ) | head -20
I've heard that GNOME and components can pig out. What happens to X
when you start closing things?
My own box is doing relatively OK on a similar configuration and load.
X is about 19% of 256 MB RAM.
2:21am up 11 days, 22:23, 6 users, load average: 3.52, 3.38, 3.52
127 processes: 124 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 5.3% user, 7.8% system, 86.9% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 257828K av, 248128K used, 9700K free, 133908K shrd, 6772K buff
Swap: 403772K av, 5224K used, 398548K free 122668K cached
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