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From: tom@ICASE.EDU (Tom Crockett)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11R4 Xsun server appears to have a memory leak
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Date: 1 Feb 90 14:58:14 GMT
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> *Excerpts from copies: 31-Jan-90 Re: X11R4 Xsun server appea.. => Bob*
> *Scheifler@??? (2008)*

> But I know at least one situation which causes the problem:  running the old
> R3
> xlock (compiled against R3) on the R4 server with "xset bc".  After running
> xlock overnight, I discovered that the server had grown by several megabytes.

It also happens with the R4 xlock, I discovered.  I'm using "xlock" off of the
R4 contrib tape, plus the patches which Patrick Naughton posted on 12/19/89.
After running "xlock" overnight with the previously posted arguments, I found
that the server size (SZ) had grown from 940 to 6640.  RSS grew a little, but
stays reasonable.

Tom Crockett

ICASE
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