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Title: Working under X11: System hangs

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Working under X11: System hangs

Applies to

SuSE Linux: Version 6.0, 1st Edition
XFree86: Version 3.3.3

Symptom:

You are working under X11 and suddenly your system slows down and eventualy comes to a stand still.

Reason:

You have started an xterm (ie. man):
man man
You close the xterm by clicking on the "X" in the upper right hand corner. Soon after, your system begins to slow down as described above.

Some uses of the functionality of KDE are still not stable on glibc, such that as in this case you end up consuming the entire swap space.

This is most likely a problem with glibc, which can be alleviated updating to a newer version of the X11 shared libraries.

Solution:

Updating to XFree86-3.3.3.1

In particular the package xshared should be updated, sometimes this package alone is the cause of the problems.

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Keywords: X11, KDE, XTERM, MEMORY, SWAP, HOG, SLOW, CRASH

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Categories: XFree86

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