Re: X server being killed a lot

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost> wrote:
>> 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

I think I have the same model.

>> 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.

I guess I'm not getting to the point where anything has been paged out:

Memory: 9017M Act, 1400M Inact, 9400K Wired, 345M Exec, 7679M File, 2156M Free
Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE      TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
16605 rjs       43    0  2964M 1328M parked/0 230:45  6.88%  6.88% firefox
  634 rjs       85    0   182M   61M select/0 296:32  0.59%  0.59% X
18233 rjs       85    0  5840M  699M futex/3   84:31  0.00%  0.00% java
  711 rjs       85    0   301M  179M select/5  12:10  0.00%  0.00% emacs
  615 rjs       85    0    65M 6332K select/5   2:21  0.00%  0.00% mwm
21786 rjs       85    0  1182M  202M select/1   0:51  0.00%  0.00% sbcl
22344 rjs       85    0    97M   33M select/3   0:10  0.00%  0.00% xpdf
 1028 rjs       85    0   135M 7872K wait/0     0:00  0.00%  0.00% eclipse

My memory summary line looks similar to what wiz@ reported in the
original message though.