on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:04:28PM -0800, Greg Strockbine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm running Debian potato, so I have the pre version 4 of XFree. > It used to run like a champ. After installing a few more packages > and doing an update here or there, it appears I have a memory > leak. > > I barely have anything running compared to when it ran like > a champ and now I'm always on the border line of memory > starvation. > > with 256 Mbytes of ram I tend to have only 50 Mbytes or less free. > a 128 Mbyte swap file is down to 36 Mbytes or less free. > > Here's what I do have running: > - XF86-SVGA > - bash > - communicator-sm > - deskguide_applet > - emacs > - gkrellm > - gmc > - gnapster > - gnome-terminal > - gtop > - mini_commander applet > - panel > - sawfish > - tasklist_applet > > wah! my machine is running like a win98 machine! > > used to be I could have 2 emacs sessions, an xterm, > gqview, several netscape windows, and more and run > for over a month with no lose of resources. It was rock > solid, now its limping like a sick puppy. > > any ideas?
$ ( ps aux | head -1; ps aux | sed -e '1d' | sort -k 6nr ) | head -20
I've heard that GNOME and components can pig out. What happens to X
when you start closing things?
My own box is doing relatively OK on a similar configuration and load.
X is about 19% of 256 MB RAM.
2:21am up 11 days, 22:23, 6 users, load average: 3.52, 3.38, 3.52
127 processes: 124 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 5.3% user, 7.8% system, 86.9% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 257828K av, 248128K used, 9700K free, 133908K shrd, 6772K buff
Swap: 403772K av, 5224K used, 398548K free 122668K cached
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