XFree86 Version 4.0.1b / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400)
Release Date: 11 August 2000
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Are you by chance using cvs X from after september 10th? If so, hop on the
xpert@xfree86.org mailing list and post your comments there. There is another
gentlemen with a similar problem. I'm changing pace here, I believe the kernel is
fine and it is an X issue as it occurs on 2.2 as well. Visit the tail of:
http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2000-September/thread.html.
-d
safemode wrote:
> When in doubt. . Blame it on the biggest piece of crap around .. X. One can
> say using a cvs of X is the cause of this by somehow i doubt it would matter. X
> needs a sane make system and i'll bet 10:1 that it's the root of this shm usage.
> But it should not be crashing the OS ...which does occur since i just went down a
> couple minutes ago. Right now it's increasing 1 segment a second it seems. it's
> at 1200 now and i give it about 30 more minutes before i crash again. I'm gonna
> run this on the test8-vm3 patched kernel i had before that was VERY good except
> for that deadlock problem that caused me to crash after 7 days. If the shm usage
> is insane on that then i'll believe it is X's fault. be back with the results
> in a few minutes.
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