Subject: Re: memory usage and lockups
To: None <current-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu, tmc@netcom.com>
From: Marc Wandschneider <marcwan@microsoft.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/25/1994 13:48:49
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| From: Tom Crockett <netmail!tmc@netcom.com>
| > marc 'em.
| Just to add my experience with xv and Netbsd-current... It has *always*
| seemed that xv never releases memory once it has grabbed some. This
| effect is the reason I'd asked a week or so ago if you'd ported xv to
| current. 8MB ram and 16MB swap. fvwm and rxvt definitely give more room
| but eventually (quickly) all locks up and its reboot time...
xv has some horrible memory leaks in it, which makes it a very
good test for using virutal memory up. i don't even get it much
past 14m though, before my machine goes byebye, and i've got
70mb of swap space. [16mb ram].
marc 'em
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