kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > 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 > > -- > Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself > Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal > http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature
Closing things didn't help. Then a funny thing happened, napster crashed, and X's memory consumption dropped way low. It looks like napster was the culprit, but the problem was there before I ran napster. I was previously blaming Mozilla 18. I eventually logged out and logged back in and things are much better. With the same executables running as before, but adding Mozilla 18 to that list, X is at 33 Mbytes, the system monitor shows 12.5% of the memory for X. - greg s.
