On 3/29/06, David Rosenstrauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jan de Groot wrote: > > > > Try using some other theme, gtk-qt-engine is known to cause trouble now > > and then. > > The reason why X is eating loads of memory all the time is because your > > theme engine could preload pixmaps into X and never free them again. If > > this goes on for a long while, you will run out of free memory some day > > and X will die. This is just one theory, but it's easy to check: use a > > different theme engine like mist or simple. > > > Thanks for the response, Jan. > > I actually don't have it set to use any theme, but rather just my KDE style. > > But anyway, I'll try your suggestion and use a different theme. > > Thanks, > > DR >
It'd probably better if we identified what was actually leaking first. If you can tell when your ram is about to be full, or is near to it, startup these two commands: vmstat 1 > vmstat.log top -b > top.log So we can see which apps are using the memory. James -- iphitus - ArchCK Maintainer, Arch Trusted User, Arch Developer. Home:iphitus.loudas.com _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
