On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 03:05:09PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> I've set up my KDE background to "Background Program", which runs the
> command:
> 
> nice -n 19 xplanet --geometry %xx%y -cloud_image ~/.xplanet/clouds_2000.jpg 
> -projection orthographic -latitude 40 -longitude 250 --output %f.jpg && mv 
> %f.jpg %f
> 
> at 15 minute intervals.  This is similar to the instructions given in
> the xplanet FAQ.
> 
> However, every time the background updates itself, X's memory usage
> increases by about 8 MB.  Right now, X is using 356MB of RAM, and it
> will keep increasing on every update until there's no system memory
> left, upon which X crashes.  Apparently, X doesn't free up the memory
> used by the previous background images.
> 
> Any ideas how to fix this?

File a bug against xplanet.

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>


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