Re: X server being killed a lot

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

> Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost> wrote:
> >> Do we know what combination of things is causing X to be killed ?
> >
> >I can reproduce it by Xorg server + Firefox 62 + makefs(8) creating
> >4GB FFS image on NetBSD/i386 8.0 (i.e. on building live images).
> 
> How is your X server configured ? Is it operating on a framebuffer in
> main memory or VRAM on a separate graphics card ?

My machine has RADEON HD 5450 so it has own VRAM, I think

> The sizes shown in top(1) for X on my system are smaller than several
> other processes. This is with an AMD Radeon GPU with 1GB VRAM.

top(1) on the same environment says:
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Memory: 1976M Act, 974M Inact, 57M Wired, 139M Exec, 867M File, 16M Free
Swap: 8192M Total, 1578M Used, 6614M Free

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE      TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
 2521 tsutsui   43    0  1588M 1118M parked/0  36:33  1.22%  1.22% firefox
  708 tsutsui   85    0  1431M  764M select/0 484.2H  0.88%  0.88% ruby24
   73 tsutsui   85    0   383M  145M select/0 117:56  0.00%  0.00% Xorg
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Always Xorg was killed, not ruby24 or firefox:

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% zgrep 'out of swap' /var/log/messages*
/var/log/messages:Oct 14 00:53:12 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 1962.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages:Oct 18 23:27:19 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 4634.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.0.gz:Aug 22 00:45:01 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 2257.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.1.gz:Aug  6 22:35:49 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 394.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.1.gz:Aug 13 14:34:55 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 491.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.1.gz:Aug 13 17:18:07 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 2576.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.1.gz:Aug 15 13:07:11 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 970.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.4.gz:Jul  7 11:49:25 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 481.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.4.gz:Jul 22 09:29:25 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 75.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.4.gz:Jul 22 22:43:04 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 75.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.4.gz:Jul 22 22:48:24 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 4999.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.4.gz:Jul 22 22:50:08 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 14199.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.4.gz:Jul 22 22:58:48 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 3339.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.4.gz:Jul 22 23:09:28 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 11407.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.4.gz:Jul 22 23:12:20 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 29705.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.4.gz:Jul 22 23:21:39 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 1100.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.5.gz:Jun  2 20:48:55 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 846.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.5.gz:Jun  3 03:09:12 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 14182.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.5.gz:Jun  4 02:29:10 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 1260.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.5.gz:Jun  9 06:50:52 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 10595.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.5.gz:Jun  9 20:33:06 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 14867.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.5.gz:Jun 18 21:49:19 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 12485.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.5.gz:Jun 18 22:23:54 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 26101.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.5.gz:Jun 20 00:42:46 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 491.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.5.gz:Jun 23 06:34:39 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 22067.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.5.gz:Jun 30 00:06:18 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 12055.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.6.gz:May  5 17:40:40 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 74.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.6.gz:May 12 03:31:54 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 26634.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.6.gz:May 12 05:49:47 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 7793.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.6.gz:May 12 15:31:58 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 7632.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.6.gz:May 13 12:07:35 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 28029.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.6.gz:May 13 15:27:24 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 1197.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.6.gz:May 13 20:54:15 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 833.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.6.gz:May 17 00:28:20 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 3351.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
/var/log/messages.7.gz:May  4 11:01:59 mirage /netbsd: UVM: pid 1588.1 (Xorg), uid 0 killed: out of swap
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Note I updated the machine from 7.1.2 to 8.0_RC1 on April 30
(and no 'out of swap' messages in older logs).

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Izumi Tsutsui