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Date:      Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:05:02 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Craig Boston <craig@xfoil.gank.org>
Cc:        AK <lesha@intercaf.ru>
Subject:   Re: (continued) XFree86 problem?
Message-ID:  <20040617010502.GB90050@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200406161026.57921.craig@xfoil.gank.org>
References:  <200406161455.13175.lesha@intercaf.ru> <200406161026.57921.craig@xfoil.gank.org>

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On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:26:57AM -0500, Craig Boston wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 June 2004 05:55 am, AK wrote:
> > This really sucks
> > And no one responded so far ;-(
> >
> > top:
> >   615 root      96    0   538M   252M select   7:45  1.07%  1.07% XFree86
> 
> All I can say is it's not an isolated problem:
> 
>   769 root      96    0   442M   420M select 432:31  5.22%  5.22% XFree86
> 
> I have 96M of video memory total (dual head, a 64MB nv and a 32MB mga).  
> xrestop shows about 55M used by pixmaps.  That still leaves over 250M of 
> memory unaccounted for.
> 
> It seems to slowly grow over time, so I still suspect a memory leak somewhere.  
> I've just gotten in the habit of restarting X every week or so...  (note: 
> this is with XFree86 4.4, installed from a test version of the port someone 
> posted a while back.  Same thing happened with 4.3 as well).

Does xrestop show anything for you (it didn't for the OP, but it may
not be the same problem)?

Kris

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