Re: X eating all my memory!!
*- 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 -
X eating all my memory!!
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. PID TTY MAJFLT MINFLT TRS DRS SIZE SWAP RSS SHRD LIB DT COMMAND 352 ? 27095 98059 828 32744 114084 56372 57712 2040 24140 13846 /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt10 -bpp 16 -auth /var/state/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-a00341 2088 ? 48529 32036 4264 25532 45672 15876 29796 5928 0 5805 /usr/lib/netscape/45/communicator/communicator-smotif.real and the results of free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:128100 125164 2936 30772 2620 27020 -/+ buffers/cache: 95524 32576 Swap: 130748 95584 35164 I am running X 3.3.3.1-1 from netgod.net/x and am using the SVGA server. What gives? -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
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. Havoc
