I had the same trouble was my video driver which made that ... Switch to last version of nvidia solved the trouble for me ! regards,
Le dimanche 13 mai 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty a écrit : > I'm having trouble with Xorg under Etch i386 and similar annoyance under > amd64. > > Over time, xorg takes up more and more memory. On my i386, I only have > 64 MB of ram so I can only run X for about 45 minutes before the system > thrashes. Eventually, Xorg dies but doesn't release the screen. If I > let the system sit for about 60 minutes, the thrashing subsides and I > can ssh in and reboot to get my screen back. Hard on the disk, but the > i386 is only a client box. > > On my amd64 Athlon64, I have 1 GB of ram so can run xorg; I haven't left > this computer run long enough to run out of memory and thrash since its > my main box; it gets turned off at night and through the day acts as a > server. In the evening if I want to access the big screen, I'll run X > for a couple of hours. > > This happens irrespective of window manager or DTE; on the i386 icewm > takes up less memory so Xorg will run longer before thrashing than if > I'm running xfce. It also happens if I don't use a wm at all and just > run rxvt. > > Is anyone else seeing this? Is it fixed in Lenny/Sid? Any plans to fix > it for Etch? > > Thanks, > Doug. -- Hervé Piedvache