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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!mcsun!uknet!cf-cm!paul From: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Subject: Re: XFree crashes Message-ID: <1993Jun29.180818.22433@cm.cf.ac.uk> Sender: news@cm.cf.ac.uk (Network News System) Organization: /usr/local/lib/rn/organisation References: <1993Jun29.153950.10718@cs.utwente.nl> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 18:08:17 +0000 Lines: 22 In article <1993Jun29.153950.10718@cs.utwente.nl> sijben@rhone.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Paul Sijben) writes: >I have got this problem with both XFree1.2 and 1.3 that is that it >crashes and exits with signal 11 (segmentation error) for no apparent >reason. I have been told that some programs eat up a lot of memory which can >cause the X server to crash. But also when I start a new server (after a crash) >and do something inoffending as moving a window or an icon (or starting >xlock with option rotor,swarm or qix, the rest works OK) it crashes on me. > > >Does anybody have any ideas? >I am using a 496 with 8Mb ram 20Meg swappartition and a colour screen 800x600 I suffered from this for a long time. Eventually it turned out that I had a board that suffered from the dirty cache problem. Disabling the external cache solved this and a number of other segmentation error problems. -- Paul Richards, University of Wales, College Cardiff Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk