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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 08:43:12 MDT
- From: yackd@alaska.et.byu.edu (Don Yacktman)
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- References: <1992Jul28.214418.25972@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1992Jul29.124549.8044@ms.uky.edu>
- Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
- Subject: Re: NeXTmille and swapping
-
-
- In article <1992Jul29.124549.8044@ms.uky.edu>, soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward) writes:
- >Shawn Willden writes
- >-> Hi all,
- >->
- >->
- >-> 1) MallocDebug was wrong and I was missing something that
- >-> a little more work with the code could uncover.
- >-> 2) Something was wrong with Mach's swapping algorithm.
- >-> 3) I was REALLY missing some vital information and if it
- >-> was in the on-line manuals I couldn't find it.
- >
- >Easy thing to do is use "ps" from terminal and *see* what processes seem to
- >have a large chunck of memory allocated to them...I haven't looked at the code
- >at all, but my guess would be that the WindowServer will be the culprit. And
- >that it arises from many Views/Windows/etc that are being allocated and perhaps
- >not freed/re-used.
- >
- >Good luck,
- >--
- > ________________________________________________________________________
- > / 'The midnight sun will burn you up" -The Cure, Piggy in the Mirror /
- > / soward@ms.uky.edu | soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (NeXT Mail) /
- > /_______________________________________________________________________/
-
- Yes, it _is_ the window server. Run it with -NXShowAllWindows. Every time
- you drag a card, etc, an offscreen buffer for the card is created, and the
- card is drawn in it, but the buffer is never freed. Thus, the window server
- grows and grows and grows. :( I haven't had time to fix this problem myself,
- but I know that that is the problem. If anyone _does_ fix it, let me know
- before you post it to sonata, because I _have_ made a colorized version, and
- would like to include the color support in the fixed version. If you wait
- long enough, I'll fix it myself anyway. :) (The colorized version required
- new .tiffs and a change to the pswrap that draws the stoplights; simple
- changes, really.)
-
- Later,
- -Don Yacktman
-