[ On , May 7, 2002 at 12:18:24 (-0700), Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: interesting observations on the Xsun(Mono) Xserver problem....
>
> Could your server be growing to unreasonable levels?

No, not likely.  It doesn't live that long!  ;-)

USER    PID %CPU %MEM  VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
woods 12477 24.5  0.5 4620 188 ?? SN    1:41PM  12:57.24 XsunMono :0 -fp /usr/X

The very largest core I've ever got is, I think, this one:

	text    data      bss   dec       hex     filename
	0       10117464  0     10117464  9a6158  XsunMono.core

The core from after three full days of operation over the weekend was no
bigger than normal:

	text    data      bss    dec      hex     filename
	0       4419928   0      4419928  437158  XsunMono.core

There's still 10MB free on the system -- it doesn't usually page (I'd
notice that since it pages via NFS over 10baseT).

After six days uptime (and 8 Xserver crashes) it's only paged a tiny bit
and most of that is stuff that's never in the current working set:

	$ /sbin/swapctl -l
	Device      512-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Priority
	/swap/very      131072     5944   125128     5%    0

My guess about libungif didn't seem to be going anywhere useful either.
I've had three crashes since I posted and I've not run anything at all
extraordinary before the last crash.....  :-(

So, that's one definite problem with a UTF-8 encoded font eliminated,
and libungif's potentially bad behaviours eliminated, and 1.5W problems
also either eliminated or still lingering unresolved.  Looks like I've
gone back to "Go" without collecting $200.  Again.  :-(

Perhaps I'll get ambitious and try the 1.5ZC kernel again, but this time
I'll re-build gdb too so that I can at least look at the new core files.

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								Greg A. Woods

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