Re: memory corruption under heavy load? [X size]

Mikael Abrahamsson (mike@uplift.sparta.lu.se)
Thu, 4 Apr 1996 17:03:46 +0200 (MET DST)


On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, Jochen F. Toppe wrote:

>
>
> Hmmm, I have had a similar problem, running X and
> Netscape on my P/100, 16 M Ram, 1.3.80, the system started swapping
> like crazy (??) when I tried to download a rather big picture,
> so I checked out the processes, and it turned out that X had
> grown to over 22 Megs! I thought that was weird, I rebooted,
> and I haven't really had any problems ever since, but I haven't
> put a big load on the system either.

root 112 1.0 9.7 19716 4580 ? S Mar 30 72:29 X :0
swmike 8998 0.2 3.9 12676 1856 ? S Mar 31 16:17 xv -24
swmike 1402 0.0 6.5 11196 3096 p1 S Mar 30 4:20 ./netscape

Kinda interesting to see 40+ megs spent on X utils...

I think this has been shown before, but it's really annoying...

This is XFree 3.1.2.