>From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
>Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 07:56:40 +0200 (EET)

>How does one start an X server so that it doesn't run out of memory when
>several applications are running simultaneously?  My X seems to grow to
>16-18 MB and then starts refusing new clients.  I'm using XFree86, version
>3.1.2 in 65536 color mode with fvwm2-95.  I try to 'ulimit' before running
>'xinit', but it doesn't seem to solve the problem.  My system has 64 MB of
>RAM and 380 MB of swap (under NetBSD 1.2).

You may want to upgrade XFree86 (or at least the server and libraries)
to version 3.2.  Many bugs were fixed between 3.1.2 and 3.2.

It may also help to use 16-color mode instead of 65536-color mode.
That should reduce the server's memory consumption significantly.
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