[NTLUG:Discuss] X 3.3.6 + Redhat 6.2 = Memory Prob

[lee@brave.com]

Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> lee at brave.com wrote:
> >
> > Running X 3.3.6 on a relatively fresh install of RH 6.2.
> >
> > X consumes more and more memory over about a 8 hr period and then starts
> > to thrash swap; only way out is to kill X.
> 
> Do you have any fancy background gadgets running?  What screensaver?

oh yeah.  tons o' crap.  latest enlightenment, Eterms, couple of
epplets, netscape, gkrellm.  but no gnome-session <eek-shudder>.  for
screensaver i use the one native to X, but i also have DPMS enabled and
it turns the monitor off after 20 mins or so....

> Have you tried disabling all that junk and setting everything to the
> bare minimum?

i'll try it, shoulda tried it sooner, LOL!  :)

> Dunno - but I used a Cirrus chipset with Xfree 3.3.6 for quite a while.
> (Also on a 400MHz K6 as it happens).
> 
> Since I don't generally shut down - or even log off my PC, and I only
> have 64Mb of RAM and 100Mb or so of swap - it would have pretty obvious
> if I had a problem - and I ran with that combination for *months*
> without dying or rebooting.
> 
> I didn't ever run that combination with a 2.2.14 kernel - it
> would have been under SuSE 6.3 which had 2.2.12 or so (IIRC).

yup, i've run an X server a long long long time without this kind of
behavior on this pc.  really weird.

thanks for the suggestions!!  :-)

-- lee