hello redhatters, i would guess i need to reboot, but i just thought i'd ask first.. i killed X with ctl-alt-bsp, the console still shows a signature pattern of my windows dying away, ctl-alt-Fn doesn't work, i can get in via ssh from elsewhere, X is gone, getty is still running on the VT's, chvt doesn't help. it's not happened to me before, i've exhausted my tricks for how to nudge it. are there any other tricks to try? also fwiw, the reason i killed X is because, using gimp, X quickly gets mired in pageswap to the tune of 280mb total. and, page swap is surprisingly slow on this rh9 box, while other disk activity is as speedy as you'd expect. meanwhile running gimp on the same box with X on a different rh7.2 box, X there (4.1.0-50) doesnt grab anywhere near as much memory, so i'm guessing the newer xfree86 (4.3.0-2.90.55) is a pig.. tia, -g -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
