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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!winx03!linpc12.sari.fh-wuerzburg.de!job From: job@linpc12.sari.fh-wuerzburg.de (Hans-Joachim Both) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Memory exhaustion w/ XF86 Date: 3 Jul 1996 10:39:40 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4rdilc$etg@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: linpc12.sari.fh-wuerzburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Did enyone of you made the same experience than me with XFree86 3.1.2 and Netscape 2.x (or 3 beta) under BSD 2.1.0 When running Netscape I noticed that all bitmaps are cached in the X server. This is a normal behaviour, of course, but after a while X takes more than 90 % of the physical core memory and leeds the system to trashing or even make it unable to spawn processes. Ok, you may say, shut down the server and restart. The difficulty is that when running xdm a server restart with memory freeing is not possible as a normal user. Has anybody a solution to this problem? Thanks for your answer job@linpc9.sari.fh-wuerzburg.de