Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Mar 1998 00:20:10 +0100 (CET) | From | Andreas Kostyrka <> | Subject | Re: GGI and cli/sti in X |
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On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Kyle Cronan wrote:
> > > > I've _never_ had an X bug cause video problems or a crash, > > > and I've been using Linux and X for more than a couple years. > > > > Do this for me: Limit your mem to 16Meg, make your machine swap a > > bit. Now switch consoles from/into X and do it fast. Be creative and > > you'll see complete freeze or at least complete mess-up of video. > > > > Pavel > > I tried this on my machine, which is a 486 (ghasp!), with memory limited > to 8 MB. I started a compile (of binutils), then started X, started > loading netscape 4.04, and then ran a find /. I was logged in on 4 > consoles and there was needless to say a lot of swapping, but no matter > how fast I switched VCs the machine didn't crash. I probably switched > back and forth from X to console at least fifty times while netscape was > loading. Obviously it was pretty slow, but switching to console and back > actually got faster as I did it more and more. At the end I killed -9 the > X server, no problems. You killed it on a text console, or in the Xserver. I assume that you killed it on a text console, where this is the normal behaviour. (The X server restored textmode when you switched away, and kill -9 doesn't give it time to do something sneaky anymore :) ). Try this from on xterm in the Xserver *g* > > I have a Western Digital WD90C24 graphics adapter, and granted it was not > in high res. Although it's quite possible this is a unique case, perhaps > the problems with X crashing could more easily be solved by just fixing > the bugs in the X server code which has problems, because mine definately > doesn't have those problems. Again. kill -9 the the server from inside X. > > Also, I was impressed by the fact that in 8MB ram and 20 MB swap, while I > was compiling and such, netscape still loaded after several minutes, and > the machine, although it's only a 486, was still decently fast. This was > in 2.0.33--I think I'll try it in 2.1.90 for comparison. Yeah, I know, it's incredible how well linux handles resources :)
Andreas
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