Unix pc sluggishness when switching windows
Augustine Cano
afc at shibaya.lonestar.org
Fri Feb 8 03:17:12 AEST 1991
In article <979 at gnosys.svle.ma.us> gst at gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo) writes:
>In <1991Feb5.040416.354 at shibaya.lonestar.org> afc at shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes:
>
>> So, what is slowly degrading in the kernel that is fixed at boot time?
>> Has anybody else noticed this? Does anybody have a clue as to what it is?
>
>Yup. It's a memory leak of some sort in the window manager. Do a "ps -el"
>and take a look at the memory size numbers |
> v
> 1 S 0 17268 1 3 27 20 14d 18: 13 5af68 w4 2:36 wmgr
>
>I just killed and restarted wmgr recently, so not much memory has been
>consumed so far (I've seen the first number as high as 80 or 90). Let's
>see what I get if I kill and restart wmgr again:
>
> 1 S 0 20490 1 6 27 20 1e5 6: 12 5af68 w4 0:04 wmgr
>
>Maybe one of the UNIXpc development team out there who have access to
>the source code of wmgr can take a look for us. I've just learned to
>kill and restart wmgr every 2 or 3 days.
This is not a leak, it's a FLOOD! I just hit the <SHIFT><RESUME> button
24 times and that was enough to bump the memory size by 1.
Please, somebody with source, would it be possible to either get a patch
to fix this or to store a fixed binary version at osu?
>Gary
>
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> Gary S. Trujillo gst at gnosys.svle.ma.us
>Somerville, Massachusetts {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst
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