On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Oren Shomron wrote:
Sounds to me like an all too known XFree bug.
When this happens, can you run `top' in a xterm (make sure you still have
one free). I'll bet that X will be running at ~95% cpu and more.
In any case, I advise on enlarging your swap to at least 64MB.
(buying some RAM would also be a good idea, but I don't want to become
like MickeySoft).
--Ariel
> Ariel Biener wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Oren Shomron wrote:
> >
> >A few details.
> >
> >What machine is that ? How much memory ? How large is the swap ?
> >
> >Do you run as root ? Do you observe this behaviour under other
> > applications ?
> >
> >Any special thing we should know about ? What kernel ?
> >
> > --Ariel
>
> Ok, it's an Intel Pentium-2 233, 32 megs physical ram and 40 megs swap.
> I run as a user and I haven't had a chance to notice this with other
> applications
> because none of themleaked all their memory like Netscape.
> The kernel is stock 2.2.10.
>
> The system becomes totally unresponsive, ALT-Q and CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE
> both don't work, only ALT-SYSREQ and I'd really rather find a more elegent
> way
> out of the mess...
>
> - Oren
>
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