David Ford wrote:
> XFree86 Version 4.0.1b / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400)
> Release Date: 11 August 2000
>
> =)
>
> Are you by chance using cvs X from after september 10th? If so, hop on the
> xpert@xfree86.org mailing list and post your comments there. There is another
> gentlemen with a similar problem. I'm changing pace here, I believe the kernel is
> fine and it is an X issue as it occurs on 2.2 as well. Visit the tail of:
> http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2000-September/thread.html.
>
> -d
>
> safemode wrote:
>
> > When in doubt. . Blame it on the biggest piece of crap around .. X. One can
> > say using a cvs of X is the cause of this by somehow i doubt it would matter. X
> > needs a sane make system and i'll bet 10:1 that it's the root of this shm usage.
> > But it should not be crashing the OS ...which does occur since i just went down a
> > couple minutes ago. Right now it's increasing 1 segment a second it seems. it's
> > at 1200 now and i give it about 30 more minutes before i crash again. I'm gonna
> > run this on the test8-vm3 patched kernel i had before that was VERY good except
> > for that deadlock problem that caused me to crash after 7 days. If the shm usage
> > is insane on that then i'll believe it is X's fault. be back with the results
> > in a few minutes.
>
> --
> "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are
> virtue and talents", Thomas Jefferson [1742-1826], 3rd US President
XFree86 Version 4.0.1c / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400)
Release Date: 28 August 2000
i cvs'd and compiled this last night Sept 22
ipcs -u
------ Shared Memory Status --------
segments allocated 439
pages allocated 2990
pages resident 2645
pages swapped 0
Swap performance: 0 attempts 0 successes
------ Semaphore Status --------
used arrays = 0
allocated semaphores = 0
------ Messages: Status --------
allocated queues = 0
used headers = 0
used space = 0 bytes
cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 130011136 93089792 36921344 0 1347584 39284736
Swap: 205271040 0 205271040
MemTotal: 126964 kB
MemFree: 36056 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 1316 kB
Cached: 38364 kB
Active: 18760 kB
Inact_dirty: 20920 kB
Inact_clean: 0 kB
Inact_target: 260 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 126964 kB
LowFree: 36056 kB
SwapTotal: 200460 kB
SwapFree: 200460 kB
df
shm 8388608 11996 8376612 1% /var/shm
It seems to me that test8-vm3 handles this fine. in test9 upon loading X i was
already using swap and down to 10MB ... here i have netscape loaded and some other
stuff along with gaim and i've got 36MB free still. I'm not so sure you can chalk
this up totally to X .... test9 is a VERY VERY poor kernel compared to test8-vm3
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