On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Jukka Marin wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> Like you can probably recall, I was having problems with Applixware and
> XFree86 (Applix was running very slow).  I then disabled the
> UseInternalMalloc option of XFree and things started functioning much
> faster.
> 
> However, now the X server eats lots of memory and finally dies (because
> of the process data size limits).  At the moment, the server has allocated
> 35 MB, after running for 11 days.  I'll have to shut it down soon or I will
> no longer be able to start new applications.
> 
	I had a similar memory problem with Netscape on NetBSD/sparc -
	running 'limit datasize XX' before xdm in rc.local was a passable
	workaround IIRC.

> How do other people configure XFree?  Or is everyone just rebooting often
> enough not to run into this kind of problems?  It's annoying to have to
> shut down X and all the applications just to reclaim the allocated memory.
> 
> Any solutions?  Should I (finally) build XFree with profiling and try to
> see why its internal malloc uses so much CPU time?
> 
> By the way, I have the same "process size growing endlessly" problem with
> GIMP.  Is there something wrong with our malloc() or WHY is this happening?
> GIMP hits the process data size limit quite soon, no matter how high I set
> it.
> 
	Have you tried linking with -lgnumalloc ?