[Freeciv] Re: memory usage ?!

[340018759363-0001@xxxxxxxxxxx (Thomas Riedel)]

> > > > After  playing freeciv for approximately 2 hours, my computer slows 
> > > > down really BAD.
> > > > That is, running civserver and one of two civclients (both 1.11.5
> > > > devel) on an Athlon 600 with 128 Mb of RAM and 200 Mb of Swap. 
> > > > /usr/bin/top shows about 250 % of memory usage for X. Is this normal 
> > > > (can't be!)?
> > > 
> > > certainly not. It works well for me.
> > > this was earlier reported for freeciv on windows. There is
> > > supposedly a memory leak in gtk for windows due to which this
> > > happens. (but this dosen't explain why it is happening on your
> > > system if as I assume, you are using linux).
> >
> > Possibly a buggy GTK+ theme?
>
> I don't know. I use the "ThinSki"-theme on gtk-1.2.8 with Windowmaker 0.62.1, 
> XFree 4.0.1, linux-2.4.0-test9-pre7. I tried it three times and every time
>  the 
> same problem. I'm just about to try it without any gtk-theme. Or should i try
>  it 
> with the XAW-Client?!

Ok, it seems not to be problem of freeciv or gtk, but a big problem (or bug) of 
XFree-4.0.1 or of those NVidia-drivers 0.9.5. If i start my X, it takes about 
200 % of memery usage, but i have also 68 MB of RAM free. While playing freeciv 
the amount of free RAM decreases very fast. After a while the machine locks up 
because of swapping.

Thomas R.