On 01-Apr-2002 Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: > Hi! > > I'm running unstable, on an AMD XP1800, 512 Mb. > My free swap and memory seems to be less and less for every day that > goes by. I have 19 days uptime with 2.4.18. > If I start a VNC server the same thing happens, after a while that > process starts using 97% of the CPU and the swap just fills up. That can > be a unrelate problem. > Right now X is using 160Mb of the swap and 10% of the mem. Should X > have such big memory mark? > Using ps to check that process it seems that the largest chunk used by > that process is in the adress range 081bd000-1014f000 , size 130632Mb > offset 00000000, device 3,5 inode 0, file (anonymous). > The other users on my system dont have the same problem when using vnc, > the only difference is that I use ROX. I dont know if that is related. > I use blackbox. > > Does anyone know what is happening? >
some programs which set the root image fail to clean up after themselves. So if you change your wallpaper often this could be a culprit. ROX may also be leaking. Not that I am saying this for certain, but I have heard nothing on the blackbox list about leaks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
