On Sun, 26 Apr 1998 20:03:33 -0000 (GMT) 
 jiho@postal.c-zone.net wrote:

 > > If you kill the X server, and restart, is your memory reclaimed?
 > 
 > I believe most or all of it is.  But since it can't be associated with the
 > server (or any other program, for that matter), program allocations per se
 > don't seem to explain it.

Huh?  If you kill the X server, and all the memory is suddenly reclaimed,
it certainly is associated with the X server!

Just because a client exits, it doesn't mean that whatever memory the
X server allocated to deal with that client is freed!

 > Please note that, in any case, the situation with UVM might be very different.
 > All of this is with the old Mach vm.  So you could argue that it's a problem
 > for the truly bored and curious.  I've been wrestling with it so long, though,
 > I'd really like to close the book on it.

I don't think this has anything to do with UVM or Mach VM.  I think what
you're seeing can be completely attributed to userland code, specifically
the X server implementation.

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