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From: mhw@cs.brown.edu (Mark Weaver)
Subject: Re: XFree crashes
In-Reply-To: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk's message of Tue, 29 Jun 1993 18:08:17 +0000
Message-ID: <MHW.93Jun30235403@vegas.cs.brown.edu>
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Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Brown University
References: <1993Jun29.153950.10718@cs.utwente.nl> <1993Jun29.180818.22433@cm.cf.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1993 04:54:03 GMT
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I have this same problem even turning off the external cache. It is very
predictable. xswarm and cbzone are among the programs that consistently
make my Xserver crash by a segmentation fault with a few seconds of running.
I have a Gateway 2000 with 486-DX2 66 with 16MB RAM, 96MB swap space,
and XFree86 1.2. This has happened with both 386BSD-0.1 and NetBSD-0.8.
Mark
In article <1993Jun29.180818.22433@cm.cf.ac.uk> paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) writes:
> 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.
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