FYI, it seems the latest X CVS has the SHM problem fixed.
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Shaw Starr repored on xpert@xfree86.org that a fresh checkout of 4.01d and fresh
build of X resulted in a fixed/working shm w/ X.
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safemode wrote:
> When in doubt. . Blame it on the biggest piece of crap around .. X. One
> can
> say using a cvs of X is the cause of this by somehow i doubt it would matter.
> X
> needs a sane make system and i'll bet 10:1 that it's the root of this shm
> usage.
> But it should not be crashing the OS ...which does occur since i just went
> down a
> couple minutes ago. Right now it's increasing 1 segment a second it seems.
> it's
> at 1200 now and i give it about 30 more minutes before i crash again. I'm
> gonna
> run this on the test8-vm3 patched kernel i had before that was VERY good
> except
> for that deadlock problem that caused me to crash after 7 days. If the shm
> usage
> is insane on that then i'll believe it is X's fault. be back with the
> results
> in a few minutes.
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