Fred, Are you still directly involved with XFree86 development? (Sorry list, I know he's on this list and I forgot his exact Mdk mail addr...)
If so, is there an explanation(*) why the X server's virtual memory size constantly increases while the resident set size stays reasonably low? (This is ever since 4.0 but recently it got so bad that every so often, i.e. sometimes once in a week, X crashes because it cannot get vm_page's, i.e. X VM gets so big it eats up all swap while the RSS is only about 40MB. This seems to be correlated with heavy pixmap usage such as with Netscape webbrowsing or apps with heavy GUIs such as anjuta. In fact, crash is immanent as X size is now 157MB, RSS 41MB, swap 119MB/128MB and almost no X apps are running apart from GNOME system processes.) Sorry again, although also Cooker's 4.2.0-12mdk version is affected it is not a Cooker issue. It even happens on RedHat 7.1 + RawHide, although it is a bit aleaviated with 4.2.99 (I'm writing a driver for the SummaExpression tablet for which I wanted to use the newest XInput API). Are there plans for a 4.3 release soon? Anyway, we should take this off-list... Guy Bormann P.S.:(*)I have an idea (which needs more involvement from the kernel) but I have to check the X sources first...
