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From: tridge@aerodec.anu.edu.au (Andrew Tridgell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Xcfb growing and growing and grow....
Message-ID: <2383@aerodec.anu.edu.au>
Date: 23 Jan 91 14:20:28 GMT
Organization: Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Does anyone know why Xcfb would grow? Whenever anyone is logged on to
the console of our DS3100 I've noticed that Xcfb grows - and doesn't
shrink when they exit. It grew to 21M (in the SZ column of ps aux) at
one stage so I kept getting an out of core message and had to reboot!
After one day (and 2 console sessions) it has reached 7.6M and I don't
relish having to reboot every few days.

We are running Ultrix 4, have 16M of memory and a 600M disk (if that's
relevant). Recently we have started using the mwm motif window manager -
could that be doing it?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Andrew Tridgell
tridge@aerodec.anu.edu.au