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Hi Vince<BR>
true, but I haven't yet repeated the loss of control/shift so will have to wait until I can duplicate.... I think it was just part of my X memory issue.<BR>
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On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 19:46 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 21:02 +1000, ruscook wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Hi folks,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> As you can see, xorg has decided to use 200mega byte of virtual memory</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> and evolution and epiphany have also gone mad. At the same time I've</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> lost the use of the shift and control keys i.e. they don't modify</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> other keys at all but alt still works. - A reboot of X i.e.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ctrl-alt-backspace fixes this.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Here's the top output for these apps.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> 8228 root 15 0 200m 22m 5384 S 22.4 2.3 49:11.02 Xorg</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> 7523 ruscook 15 0 148m 48m 12m S 3.5 4.8 5:40.23 epiphany</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> 7527 ruscook 15 0 234m 72m 16m S 0.2 7.2 0:37.08</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> evolution-2.6</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Does anyone else have this problem?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">The fact that Xorg or anything uses lots of "virtual" memory is not a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">problem, it's a feature (I have similar figures on my machine).</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">The "virtual" memory is not at all an indication of how much physical</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">RAM is actually being used. Memory management in Linux is very</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">complex...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">However the fact that you lost the use of the Shift and Control keys is</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">definitely a bug !</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">You should file a bug report about it so hopefully it can be fixed in</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">time.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">--</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Vince</FONT>
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