On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 15:03, Joerg Mertin wrote: > Hia Folks, > > I can now reproduce the X-Windows Running Amok stuff. > OK - here's what you gotta do: > > Start X-Windows, Work as usual. > Start the Mandrake Control Center - Hardware - > Start the Printer configuration utility > Play a little bit around with the Printer stuff - so that it > loads the Printer Driver databases. > > Leave the Mandrake Control-Center + Printer configuration panel running > and forget it. > > Now - check the Memory Consumption of your X-Windows (using top b.e.). > You'll see - that the Application will steadily eat Memory until nothing > is left. And - the bad part is - X won't release this eaten up memory. > > The biggest Mistake, when you'll see your machine swapping - is to kill > printerdrake, as this will kill your machine -> Swapping to death ... > Best to do is: Save everything you still can, type in a console: sync, > and push the button... > > Cheers > > Joerg
All I can say is... Anyone who has the cooker running... Can you duplicate this as well? They won't take a bug report against release so we'd have to duplicate this there. If two or 3 of you can and you file the report / vote for it... they might ..... just might.... address the problem. *grin*. James
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