Are you running XMMS when this happens? Back when I was still using XMMS, my memory (RAM and swap) sometimes completely filled up. Then it started trashing for about 5 minutes and finally, when XMMS (together with a few other apps) was killed, everything went back to normal.
It never happened when XMMS wasn't running tho. On 3/29/06, James Rayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
