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From: "Laramie Leavitt" <lar@cs.york.ac.uk>
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Subject: RE: Linux 2.4.1ac14
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> 
> > After building/playing around with some java apps on this 
> version, something
> > seems to have gone weird with X or the kernel..
> > 
> > david@prototype:~$ ps aux | grep X
> > root       267  0.9 99.9 167640 4294965764 ? S<   06:50   1:11 
> /usr/bin/X11/X vt7 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth :0
> > 
> > System seems mostly fine, a bit slow..
> 
> Yeah folks were wondering if our rss accounting was atomically 
> safe. I guess
> the answer from this one is 'probably not'
> 
> > Would having the huge swap have anything to do with it? Needed 
> it to install
> > oracle, but the blasted thing won't install anyway (Debian Sid).
> 
> It actually looks like the system is working fine other than 
> miscounting the
> resident size of the X process.
> 
> Rik, Ben ?

I noticed that these accounting values were a little weird last
night (when using top) when it said that X was using something
like 205% of my memory.  So there definately is something strange
going on...

Laramie
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