Re: [XonX-Users] XFree 4.2.1.1 memory usage
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From: Eric K. <kn...@in...> - 2002-12-03 17:41:40
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Torrey Lyons <to...@mr...> writes: > At 8:50 PM +0100 11/6/02, Eric Knauel wrote: >>Do I have to build the whole XFree86 system in order to try XDarwin >>1.2a2? > > There is probably a fancy way to build only the X server, but I've > never tried it. You can just do "make World" at the top level. Once > you've built everything once you can rebuild just the X server by > doing "make" in xc/programs/Xserver. You can also install only the X > server with "make install" in xc/programs/Xserver. > >> Is there a special tag or branch for XDarwin 1.2a2? > > No. It is just what the top of the tree is currently called. The > build does break occasionally due to changes in other parts of the X > server, but we like to hear about it and fix it if you have any > build problems. I finally had some time to try it. I checked out XFree86 CVS yesterday and "make World" works fine. I now have a XDarwin.app version 1.2a2. Memory consumption still seems to grow while switching between workspaces in WindowMaker 0.80.2. However, it grows much slower. After a few hours and maybe one houndred switches top says this: 25818 XDarwin 0.6% 1:19.47 3 90 580 17.1M 374M 249M 509M Right after the start XDarwin used about 120M. Every switch increases these numbers by 4M (sometimes a little less). BTW I don't know if this is important to you: Meanwhile I upgraded to OS X 10.2.2. The problem with XDarwin 1.1.1.1 is still the same. It occurs with ion and WindowMaker as well. Ciao, Eric -- "Excuse me --- Di Du Du Duuuuh Di Dii --- Huh Weeeheeee" (Albert King) |