Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!mhres!squirrel!pronto!jv From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: window manager under ultrix 4.1 Message-ID: <1991Mar11.092043.12323@pronto.mh.nl> Date: 11 Mar 91 09:20:43 GMT References: <67818@brunix.UUCP> <1991Mar8.171052@databs.enet.dec.com> Sender: jv@pronto.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) Reply-To: Johan Vromans Organization: Multihouse Automation, the Netherlands Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: ballou@databs.enet.dec.com's message of 8 Mar 91 22:15:21 GMT In article <1991Mar8.171052@databs.enet.dec.com> ballou@databs.enet.dec.com writes: > |> When I start up the X server, it has a process size of approx 2.5 > |> megs. After I start and stop a few windowed applications, the process > |> size has grown to 12 Megs. > > Well, on my DS3100, ULTRIX 4.1 and mwm 1.1, mwm _was_ a hog until I > figured out what was going on. There's a bug in mwm -- > ... I'm running Ultrix 4.0 with tvtwm, and my X server (Xcfb) shows the same behaviour. I once managed to get it to 32Mb in size! Since I'm not running mwm, I'm not sure this is a mwm bug. Johan -- Johan Vromans jv@mh.nl via internet backbones Multihouse Automatisering bv uucp: ..!{uunet,hp4nl}!mh.nl!jv Doesburgweg 7, 2803 PL Gouda, The Netherlands phone/fax: +31 1820 62911/62500 ------------------------ "Arms are made for hugging" -------------------------