Re: XFree86 Memory usage
On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 01:29:54PM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote:
> Well, I would say it's abnormal... I have the same problem... Ok, I'm
> running Woody (X, KDE and galeon) on a notebook and therefor don't have so
> much memory. I usually only use the console, Kmail, Knode, galeon and gaim
> and have them open all the time. Sometimes I also use OpenOffice. And
> usually after 2 days, sometimes only after one day I have to reboot,
> because the machine gets unusable slow and is swapping like hell...
> galeon seems indeed to be the worst of these apps... it also fills my
> harddrive although I gave it a limit of 5 Megs for cache files... It still
> uses the default of 50 megs, which is not acceptable on a 2.5 Gig
> partition... Of course I could change to Mozilla instead, but Mozilla is
> slower and the font rendering is not so beautiful like in galeon...
> especially Unicode...
>
> maybe there are some developers on this list who can shed a bit of light in
> the dark...
Do you have Java and/or Shockwave? Big memory hogs IMHO, and buggy too.
But, rebooting hardly seems necessary. Probably nothing "slay" couldn't
solve, and possibly just logging out of X would be enough...
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