Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 23 Sep 2000 14:00:20 -0400 | From | safemode <> | Subject | Re: problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM |
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David Ford wrote:
> XFree86 Version 4.0.1b / X Window System > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) > Release Date: 11 August 2000 > > =) > > Are you by chance using cvs X from after september 10th? If so, hop on the > xpert@xfree86.org mailing list and post your comments there. There is another > gentlemen with a similar problem. I'm changing pace here, I believe the kernel is > fine and it is an X issue as it occurs on 2.2 as well. Visit the tail of: > http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2000-September/thread.html. > > -d > > safemode wrote: > > > When in doubt. . Blame it on the biggest piece of crap around .. X. One can > > say using a cvs of X is the cause of this by somehow i doubt it would matter. X > > needs a sane make system and i'll bet 10:1 that it's the root of this shm usage. > > But it should not be crashing the OS ...which does occur since i just went down a > > couple minutes ago. Right now it's increasing 1 segment a second it seems. it's > > at 1200 now and i give it about 30 more minutes before i crash again. I'm gonna > > run this on the test8-vm3 patched kernel i had before that was VERY good except > > for that deadlock problem that caused me to crash after 7 days. If the shm usage > > is insane on that then i'll believe it is X's fault. be back with the results > > in a few minutes. > > -- > "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are > virtue and talents", Thomas Jefferson [1742-1826], 3rd US President
XFree86 Version 4.0.1c / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 28 August 2000
i cvs'd and compiled this last night Sept 22
ipcs -u ------ Shared Memory Status -------- segments allocated 439 pages allocated 2990 pages resident 2645 pages swapped 0 Swap performance: 0 attempts 0 successes
------ Semaphore Status -------- used arrays = 0 allocated semaphores = 0
------ Messages: Status -------- allocated queues = 0 used headers = 0 used space = 0 bytes
cat /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 130011136 93089792 36921344 0 1347584 39284736 Swap: 205271040 0 205271040 MemTotal: 126964 kB MemFree: 36056 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 1316 kB Cached: 38364 kB Active: 18760 kB Inact_dirty: 20920 kB Inact_clean: 0 kB Inact_target: 260 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 126964 kB LowFree: 36056 kB SwapTotal: 200460 kB SwapFree: 200460 kB
df shm 8388608 11996 8376612 1% /var/shm
It seems to me that test8-vm3 handles this fine. in test9 upon loading X i was already using swap and down to 10MB ... here i have netscape loaded and some other stuff along with gaim and i've got 36MB free still. I'm not so sure you can chalk this up totally to X .... test9 is a VERY VERY poor kernel compared to test8-vm3
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