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From: cdm@edsr.eds.com (Clifford David Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Memory management in OpenWindows  vs. X11R4
Keywords: fault aaack oops
Message-ID: <576@edsr.eds.com>
Date: 17 May 91 19:15:03 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Electronic Data Systems, R&D.
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A week or so ago I noted that our X server on a Sparc IPC was growing in size 
and not freeing memory.

>If I run an XView program of ours on the X11R4 server on a Sparc IPC, the 
>server grows by 7 meg!  When the application is quit, the memory is NOT
>given up.  There is an increase on a monochrome server as well, but it is
>not as substantial (about 1/8th as much).

Turns out that the MIT patches I applied a year ago were NOT 
successfully installed.

I built a new X server with all 18 patches and the problems I reported 
vanished along with a number of other cursor and display troubles.
If you're running on an IPC, make absolutely sure you're at least at patch 7, 
but preferably at patch 18!!!

<Cliff>

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