Ian - Thanks for the suggestions. They have given me more symptoms.
On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Ian Dowse wrote: > In message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joh n > Mills writes: [Concerning problems with a newly-installed 4.8-Release from the CD set. > >'startx' still proceeds until it fills all available memory. In > >particular, 'top' shows the size of 'xclock' growing while other processes > >seem OK. > ... > >2) Does this [mis]behavior sound familiar to anyone? > I've seen this before when the "fontconfig" system got confused. Try > running > fc-cache -fv > as root. If that doesn't fix it, try: That also dumped on ever-growing swap after first creating cache for the 100DPI fonts and while working on the 75DPI > echo "*clock.render: false" >> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XClock This did allow 'startx' to get past starting 'xclock', but the next thing I tried, 'xterm', then repeated the fill-swap-and-dump scenario. I guess I don't know if the problem is related to X11, bad usage of swap space, or some other memory issue. I should try some non-X11 activity (other than the underlying OS activity) and see what happens. I noticed on installation that many packages related to Gnome hadn't been read successfully from the CD. Perhaps I have a defectively written CD behind all this. John Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
