Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!att!mtuxo!mtgzz!avr From: avr@mtgzz.att.com (XMRP50000[jcm]-a.v.reed) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Memory hemmorage in Xsun? Summary: Yes, mine does too, intermittently Message-ID: <4248@mtgzz.att.com> Date: 6 Jul 88 01:33:02 GMT References: <1144@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Organization: AT&T, Middletown NJ Lines: 24 In article <1144@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>, Valdis@alchemy.mcs.clarkson.edu (Valdis Kletnieks) writes: < Has anybody seen this, or (hopefully) have a fix? < < Setup: Sun3/260 with FPA, hi-res monitor running SunOS 3.5 < < Problem: The X11R2 Xsun server keeps sucking down more and more memory. < It starts off at around 1204K, and keeps growing. Eventually, < whatever malloc (or whatever) it's doing fails, taking out Xsun. < At this point, the keyboard/mouse is hung big time, and requires a < reboot to reclaim. The failure depends how soon it runs out of swap space, < and it can have grown to anywhere between 4M and 9M in size by that point. < < It does this even if I am not starting up new programs. All that is usually < running is 3-4 xterms, 3 xperfmons, xbiff and xclock, but the actual < programs running don't seem to matter. < < The only other cure besides rebooting seems to be to close down X when I < leave each night, and fire it up in the morning, and pray it grows slow < enough to survive the workday. My 3/60 with a standard B&W buffer does the same thing but more slowly - it takes several days to run out of 8 Meg. I'd be grateful for a fix. Adam Reed (mtgzz!avr)