On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 01:21, Daniel C Bastos wrote: > Aug 11 03:56:34 danux /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space > Aug 11 04:02:34 danux /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed > Aug 11 04:02:34 danux /kernel: pid 278 (XFree86), uid 0, was killed: out > of swap space > > i was actually looking at the screen and then everything stopped (mouse > etc). i could not switch to console, but a ctrl+alt+del rebooted fine. > > one thing that could be taking a lot of memory was a program called > "xwatch" (/usr/ports/sysutils/xwatch) reading a log file (with a lot of > activity from a software i'm developing) and xwatch might not be > limiting its buffer... ? i don't know, wouldnt the kernel kill xwatch > instead of xfree86? > > i appreciate any info on this. thanks.
Pixmaps allocated by X clients are actually allocated by the server. If xwatch leaked that memory, or just allocated enough of it, it could cause XFree86 to be chosen by the OOM killer. -- Eric Anholt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
