Re: X 4.2 byting more than I can allow it to chew

["Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:44:39PM -0500, Seneca wrote:
> Over the past 10 days, I have noticed that X 4.2.1-3 has been gradually
> eating up more and more of my system's memory and swap. In the
> beginning, the XFree86 process only used about 26M, but today it had
> reached the point of using 70M (that is alot of swap, my system only has
> 192M of it).
> 
> Any suggestions on keeping the memory and swap usage down (I already
> avoid desktop environments and other heavy GUI tools)?

Are you running any kind of program that repaints the root window?  They
tend to be common culprits in memory leakage.

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