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From: meltsner@crd.ge.com (Kenneth J Meltsner)
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Subject: Re: Xcfb growing and growing and grow....
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Date: 23 Jan 91 14:05:13 GMT
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In article <2383@aerodec.anu.edu.au>, tridge@aerodec.anu.edu.au (Andrew Tridgell) writes:

|>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?

Well, we're running Ultrix/RISC 3.1 on DS5000, have 32 meg of memory
and a 600 M disk, run straight DECWindows, and we've got the same
problem.  We're up to 16M as we speak -- but we also have a huge
amount of swap space so we can do LISP programming.  Does this get
fixed in 4.1?

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