X get killed if there is not enought memory...?

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Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 5:50 am

Hello everybody,

I face a problem wich I would consider to be a Bug.

I have a Box wich has 2GB of RAM and downloads offen something via torrents.
Like Gentoo-Beta2 DVD, OpenBSD torrents and co.
I use rtorrent for this task.

What's the issue? X gets terminated if I download something if I switch from X to console and try to switch back.

X was started before I started downloading and there are absolutely no problems if I do not download anything. In case rtorrent runs I have like 1030k-12M free memory (out of 2GB).

Error Message:
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Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
apps file failure
BScreen::BScreen: managing screen 0 using visual 0x23, depth 24

Fatal server error:
Couldn't bind memory for front buffer

xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"
xinit: connection to X server lost.
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Is this a behavior I should exspect? If I started X before any other task
I assume it reserved all memory it needs. It's the first time I noticed this
behavior but it is absolutely reproduceable.

The affected Box is a IBM X61s but it should be reproduceable with any Box.
Also I did notice some graphic bugs wich are software related. There's no Bug/Error Mesage but I could make a photo fromthe screen next time if somebody cares.

If you do need any further informations please tell me and I'll provde anything I can.
Thanks for any hint! :]

Kind regards,
Sebastian

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