Re: Gnome INSANE shared memory usage

2000-06-26 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 11:04:10PM -0700, Kelly Yancey wrote: Can you guys post the output of: $ ipcs -bmo | awk -- '/^m/ {num++;total+=$7*$8}; END {print num,(total/4096)}' taken while you are experiencing the problem. The first number is the total number of shared memory segments

Re: Gnome INSANE shared memory usage

2000-06-24 Thread Kelly Yancey
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Alexander Sanda wrote: I'am ready to try another WM and see whether the SHM problems stay or not (other solutions didn't exactly work, I _dramatically_ increased all the SHM limits in the kernel but still get tons of shm errors from imlib or gdk). Yet, I still see

Gnome INSANE shared memory usage

2000-06-23 Thread Christopher Masto
This is a plea for help. I used to have a problem with Gnome - it ate up all of my SysV shared memory. My window manager (sawmill) 's title bars would come up blank because of this. I eventualy found the "use MIT-SHM" checkbox in the imlib settings and turned it off, and the problem mostly

Re: Gnome INSANE shared memory usage

2000-06-23 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Christopher Masto wrote: This is a plea for help. I used to have a problem with Gnome - it ate up all of my SysV shared memory. My window manager (sawmill) 's title bars would come up blank because of this. I eventualy found the "use MIT-SHM" checkbox in the imlib settings and turned it

Re: Gnome INSANE shared memory usage

2000-06-23 Thread Christopher Masto
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 08:22:00PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: Hmm, where my crystal ball... Aha, I see - probably you are using Xfree 4.0, while your friend Xfree3.5*. It is where the problem lie (see below). That is correct. "It has noting to do with kernel/gnome. XFree 4.0 is known to

Re: Gnome INSANE shared memory usage

2000-06-23 Thread Shawn Halpenny
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 01:22:00PM EDT Christopher Masto wrote: This is a plea for help. I used to have a problem with Gnome - it ate up all of my SysV shared memory. My window manager (sawmill) 's title bars would come up blank because of this. I eventualy found the "use MIT-SHM"

Re: Gnome INSANE shared memory usage

2000-06-23 Thread Christopher Masto
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 02:30:42PM -0400, Shawn Halpenny wrote: I have not had any of the problems he's describing. I have never modified my shared memory settings in my kernel config either. If the problem is indeed Xfree 4.0, then I guess it must be a driver issue (I'm using the neomagic

Re: Gnome INSANE shared memory usage

2000-06-23 Thread Kelly Yancey
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Christopher Masto wrote: Unfortunately, these are my current settings: options SHMALL=1025 options SHMMAX="(SHMMAXPGS*PAGE_SIZE+1)" options SHMMAXPGS=1025 options SHMMIN=2 options SHMMNI=256 options SHMSEG=128 I can

Re: Gnome INSANE shared memory usage

2000-06-23 Thread Kelly Yancey
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Shawn Halpenny wrote: I have not had any of the problems he's describing. I have never modified my shared memory settings in my kernel config either. If the problem is indeed Xfree 4.0, then I guess it must be a driver issue (I'm using the neomagic driver). You

Re: Gnome INSANE shared memory usage

2000-06-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:00 PM -0400 6/23/00, Kelly Yancey wrote: On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Shawn Halpenny wrote: I have not had any of the problems he's describing. I have never modified my shared memory settings in my kernel config either. If the problem is indeed Xfree 4.0, then I guess it must be a driver

Re: Gnome INSANE shared memory usage

2000-06-23 Thread Jacques A . Vidrine
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 08:22:00PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: Hmm, where my crystal ball... Aha, I see - probably you are using Xfree 4.0, while your friend Xfree3.5*. It is where the problem lie (see below). Well, I use XFree86 4.0 with two displays, and GNOME 1.2, and I don't have the kind

Re: Gnome INSANE shared memory usage

2000-06-23 Thread Alexander Sanda
At 16:30 23.06.2000 -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: modified my shared memory settings in my kernel config either. If the problem is indeed Xfree 4.0, then I guess it must be a driver issue (I'm using the neomagic driver). You are running sawfish, and I'm willing to bet a not very

Re: Gnome INSANE shared memory usage

2000-06-23 Thread Kelly Yancey
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Jacques A . Vidrine wrote: On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 08:22:00PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: Hmm, where my crystal ball... Aha, I see - probably you are using Xfree 4.0, while your friend Xfree3.5*. It is where the problem lie (see below). Well, I use XFree86 4.0 with

Re: Gnome INSANE shared memory usage

2000-06-23 Thread Christopher Masto
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 12:29:56AM +0200, Alexander Sanda wrote: BTW: It's for sure _not_ a -current issue and might have nothing to do with FreeBSD at all, since I'am running 4.0-STABLE on this machine, with Xfree 4.0 and Gnome 1.2. Which video card/driver are you using? (Mine is tdfx and

Re: Gnome INSANE shared memory usage

2000-06-23 Thread Kelly Yancey
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 4:00 PM -0400 6/23/00, Kelly Yancey wrote: On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Shawn Halpenny wrote: I have not had any of the problems he's describing. I have never modified my shared memory settings in my kernel config either. If the problem is

Re: Gnome INSANE shared memory usage

2000-06-23 Thread Alexander Sanda
At 18:41 23.06.2000 -0400, Christopher Masto wrote: BTW: It's for sure _not_ a -current issue and might have nothing to do with FreeBSD at all, since I'am running 4.0-STABLE on this machine, with Xfree 4.0 and Gnome 1.2. Which video card/driver are you using? (Mine is tdfx and s3virge)