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From: crouch@crunchie.axion.bt.co.uk (Chris Rouch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11R4 leak
Message-ID: <1990Feb16.104108.27490@axion.bt.co.uk>
Date: 16 Feb 90 10:41:08 GMT
References: <1406@zipeecs.umich.edu>
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In article <1406@zipeecs.umich.edu>, anon@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Omar S.
Juma) writes:

> There has been previous mention here of memory leaks.  I previously
> used an X11R3 server from DEC, and never had any trouble with memory.
> What is the experience of others with R4?
> 

On an HP9000/340 running hp-ux 6.5, we've found that our X environment
uses much more memory under R4. Within 24 hours of upgrading we'd run
out of communal swap space - something we never did with R3. As far as
we could tell the number and type of clients being used were similar to
that under R3. 

As an attempt to get around this we've set xdm up to terminate the
server rather than reset it. This appears to have helped for the moment
(although we're wondering if we'll have to revert to xinit when we
upgrade other clusters with less swap space).

Chris
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