Re: X 4.2 byting more than I can allow it to chew
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:16:57PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> 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.
No, even if I wanted to, I don't have the memory to spare.
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Seneca
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