*- On 3 May, Havoc Pennington wrote about "Re: X eating all my memory!!" > > On Sun, 2 May 1999, Brian Servis wrote: >> >> This is crazy! Why is X taking so much memory? This is the result of >> ps axmw trimmed to show only X and netscape(4.5glibc2). The machine has >> only been up just under 2 days. >> > > Remember that applications can allocate server-side resources, such as > pixmaps. Pixmaps are pretty big. So if an app is buggy and doesn't > deallocate these things the X process can get largish. > > Not to say the X server isn't at fault, but it's more likely to be a buggy > application. >
More info. Ok, this makes since. But this behavior only started showing up after I upgraded from Vincent's 3.3.3.1-0 packages to Joey's 3.3.3.1-1 packages. I run Matlab and have noticed that the apperance of the figure windows causes the X memory to increase. So either Matlab has a problem that was being blocked by -0 packages and all previous X packages back since '93 or something changed in -1. Now the problem is to trace it down. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------