I see this type of behavior after lots of window open and closes with large memory consuming windows(MATLAB plots with lots of points). After a while X starts sucking up all my memory and swap. I simply restart the window manager, not restart X, and the memory is freed. So it may be a X or window-manager issue or both. But not having to restart X is nice.
*- On 17 Dec, Nathan York wrote about "Re: how much memory is too much... for X?" > i get the same problem as this, i have to restart X every-so-often, i > don't think it is window-manager specific, as i have had the problem in > windowmaker and afterstep....it also isn't distribution specific, same > prob in redhat/debian/stormix. i can't seem to find it either, by the way > this is x-server 3.3.5 > > > On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Aaron Solochek wrote: > >> according to top, X is taking up 60megs right now. Yesterday I think >> it was even more. This is Accelerated X 5.0.3, looks like a big memory >> leak to me, anyone have any experience with this? >> -- Brian Servis -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
