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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!netnews.nwnet.net!news.uidaho.edu!usenet From: Faried Nawaz <fn@uidaho.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XF86_SVGA eats 9Mb ? Date: 21 Oct 1995 20:34:43 -0700 Organization: polynomial cows. Lines: 33 Sender: nawaz921@crater.cs.uidaho.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <imag6uqjho.fsf@crater.cs.uidaho.edu> References: <DGJqKz.2KI@cr-df.rnp.br> <463tmb$d6s@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: fn@uidaho.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: crater.cs.uidaho.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: tmonroe@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU's message of 18 Oct 1995 22:04:59 GMT X-Newsreader: (ding) Gnus v0.99.13 In article <463tmb$d6s@agate.berkeley.edu> tmonroe@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Anthony Monroe) writes: $ >My 32Mb EISA system is running out of memory. Doesn't seem normal, look at the $ >big (9Mb) XF86_SVGA process. My home system with only 16Mb runs ligther. $ >If I call a couple more apps it begins swapping (actually, it begins when top $ >shows 23M of Act Memory -> where is the rest to 32M), and if I close apps I $ >don't get the memory back. $ >Any ideas ? $ $ Not really. When this happened to me (on my 8 meg system) I noticed that my $ X server had grown to 18 megs. Hmm. So more than half of it was living in $ swap at any given time. Almost all of it, I would imagine, given that I was $ running netscape and mule (I think) at the time, in addition to the usual $ gobs of xterms... $ $ Needless to say, I had to kill the X server for performance to improve...and $ since I was running under an xdm, it made it even more fun. Aaah, the joys $ of startx... $ $ Remember, there's always the old-fashioned way to do things. there's a fix: get the Xserver link kit (part of XFree86), edit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/FreeBSD.cf and uncomment -lgnumalloc, relink and install the server. you're done. the size of my Xserver dropped from 3-8mb to 1.9-5mb (depending on what i ran, etc). another option is to install XFree86 3.12. that has everything linked with gnumalloc.