hi I wanted to know if someone could provide me with some insight on how i could go about tuning X to run a large number of apps at once(mostly terminals). Back when running debian potato under Xfree 3.3.6 X could do this pretty easily, i would have maybe 75-100 terminals/applications open at once without much trouble.
since i've upgraded to xfree 4 (woody), X seems to tap out when my process table gets to around 230 processes. that is it becomes difficult to launch new programs, and old programs(such as afterstep dock apps) seem to exit randomly. on potato i could get to 290-300 prcoesses pretty easily(same hardware) maybe a config file option? or a kernel paramter? X4 is in general less memory intensive then 3.3.6, I have to restart it about once a month when the memory usage gets to around 150-200MB. 3.3.6 I had to restart about once every 2-3 weeks with memory usage 200MB+ my process table is currentl at 229-230 processes, X memory usage is only at 70MB ..I have 161 processes running under my uid(all of which are in X), the rest are system processes, approx 260 unix sockets open on the system. I am using the same kernel as I was under potato(same compiled kernel) this has been going on ever since i upgraded around last july/august 2001. machine is p3-733 512MB, 640MB swap, matrox g400, afterstep 1.6(recompiled from potato's sources) i suppose i could just learn to close my terminals when i'm not using them anymore........but would rather tweak the system to run more! thanks nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
