I noticed something yesterday: I was previewing fonts using Metafont (*)
and after a while my X server was using up around 8Mb of memory.
Now metafont some way or another insists on creating a 1600x1200 window,
which might explain part of the problem. However to try and get
some of the 8M swapped to disk, I started a program that allocates
memory and starts to access it. This started up and got a negative
HUGE amount of memory (according to top). Also it didn't run.
(I think I asked it to allocate 7Mb, not THAT extreme). It didn't
crash the system though.


                                        Roger.

(*) Set your TERM variable to "xterm". This will make Metafont open the
X connection and display what it is doing.

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