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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kfm caches images but doesn't wipe them?
From:       David Faure <faure () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1999-05-02 13:48:31
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On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 04:52:20PM +0300, Kari Lavikka wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I was reading Red Hat installation manual using KFM .. the one that
> comes with rh 6.0. (seems to be 1.1pre2). When I was about to reach the
> last page, linux started to swap like hell. top told me this: 
>   PID USER PRI NI  SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
>  4548 root  10  0 52252 13M  1092 S      0  0.0 22.3 5:28 X
> 
> I guess kfm fills X server with pixmaps but doesn't wipe them when they
> aren't needed any more. 

You guess well.

> I closed all kfm windows but it didn't make any difference. 
> 
> after 'killall kfm; kfm &' top said: 
>   PID USER PRI NI  SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
>  4548 root   9  0 15684 13M   872 S      0  0.7 21.4 5:28 X
> 
> This has happened several times before. Browsing some web and using KDE
> several days without restaring has just about same effect.

Ok, could people stop reporting that ?
This comes up every day now !

It's a known issue, with a known and already implemented solution, but not
for 1.1.x

Or is there something I miss here ?

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David FAURE
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