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From: mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de (Martin Welk)
Subject: Re: XF86_SVGA eats 9Mb ?
Organization: Private Site, Member of Individual Network e. V.
Message-ID: <DGvnDz.Gx2@theatre.pandora.sax.de>
References: <DGJqKz.2KI@cr-df.rnp.br> <DGqnHG.8n5@seeware.dialix.oz.au>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 01:13:11 GMT
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In article <DGqnHG.8n5@seeware.dialix.oz.au>,
Mark Hannon <mark@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au> wrote:
>One solution would be to log off and then kill the server with
>Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (I assume that you are using xdm). This would
>free up the X-server memory and allow you to start from scratch.
Which version of XFree86 are you using?
As far as I remeber, XFree86 3.1.1 was using the standard malloc()
function that didn't let the X server give back free memory so
it grows and grows more and more over the weeks ( :-) )
XFree86 3.1.2 is compiled with the GNU malloc() function that
can free up unused memory. This makes X work siginificant faster
even on my machine that has currently only 8 meg of RAM.
FreeBSD-2.0.5-RELEASE included XFree86 3.1.1.
Bye,
Martin
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