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- Path: sparky!uunet!trirex!root
- From: dglattin@trirex.com (Dennis Glatting)
- Subject: Re: NeXTmille and swapping
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.163131.524@Trirex.COM>
- Sender: root@Trirex.COM (Operator)
- Organization: Trirex Systems Inc.
- References: <4u@byu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 16:31:31 GMT
- Lines: 67
-
- In article <4u@byu.edu> writes:
- >
- > 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
-
- Yes. It is a bug in the window server. To work around the bug would have
- forced me to change lots of code. Therefore I didn't do it.
-
- --
- Dennis P. Glatting
- Sr. Technical Manager
- Trirex Systems Inc.
- 315 Post Road West
- Westport, Connecticut 06880
- 203-221-4614
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