Rob Coward said:

> I think I spot your problem ..... 8Mb ! X requires huges amounts of 
> memory to do anything substantial. I used to run RiscBSD with 12Mb and I 
> rarely managed to start an xterm before X died (the underlying kernel was 
> as stable as a rock.) After increasing my memory to 40Mb (swapped 4Mb 
> simm for 32Mb) X suddenly overnight became as stable as a rock as well. 
> I'm not sure I've had a single crash since. 

I think i had almost worked this out - i managed to get xosview 
working with no other xterms or anything coming up and 95% of the 
memory was being used.  I tried running nedit and it died.  I think 
i'll give up on X until i can get some more memory.  Might only be 
8Mg, but that should solve the problem temporarily shouldnt it?

> Somewhere, there still seems to be problems with swapping and X as we 
> still get reports of problems from people with small memory 
> configurations.

I hadnt thought of runnong out of memory until i ran xosview because 
i have a fairly sizable swap partition.  Oh well, i can wait a short 
while until i can persuade someone to spend money on me ;o)

Many thanks,

  Duncs.
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