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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
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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)