Subject: Re: 'missing' X resources
To: None <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Robert Black <r.black@ic.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 11/04/1996 12:54:56
On Nov 1, 10:20am, Rob Coward wrote:
> Subject: Re: 'missing' X resources
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Duncan Ferguson wrote:
> [Snip]
> >
> > > I must say that I haven't had any problems whatsoever with X, and it is
> > > all running very stably with fvwm, xfm, nedit, mosaic, xlock, xclock,
etc.
> >
> > Can you tell me how you did it then?  More or less whenever i call
> > startx, X bombs out with a memory fault, sometimes gets further so i
> > can start nedit, but so far hasnt lasted very long.  I am wondering
> > that if David got it working OK whether there is a pysical problem with my
> > memory.  (8MB board with 30 Mg swap - I am going to have a closer look at
the
> > physical memory to see if there is a problemt)
> >
>
> 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.
>
> Somewhere, there still seems to be problems with swapping and X as we
> still get reports of problems from people with small memory
> configurations. It shouldn't be impossible for an 8Mb configuration to
> run X  - I also have a PC with 8Mb running Linux, and that manages to
> handle everything I throw at it (even if the hard disc is continuously
> being thrashed!)
>
> Anyone care to comment on possible swapping problems in relation to X ?
> Although I am no longer affected by this problem, I'm sure there must be
> several out there who are.

I don't get hit by it and I use 8Mb, 12Mb or 16Mb of DRAM depending on the
phase of the moon (and manage to recompile X whilst running xemacs under X).
Admittedly I haven't tried 8Mb for a while so it might be a new problem.

Cheers

Rob

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