Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:54:15 -0800 From: Jason Evans <jasone@freebsd.org> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org, "Ricardo A. Reis" <ricardo_bsd@yahoo.com.br> Subject: Re: xorg 6.9.0 mem leak Message-ID: <984FE491-6C27-410D-A156-8B790699EBB7@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <17374.8868.815312.597508@roam.psg.com> References: <17373.50882.270841.554876@roam.psg.com> <43DE2130.70203@yahoo.com.br> <17374.8868.815312.597508@roam.psg.com>
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[Apologies for the duplicate email; mailman didn't let the mail through the first time, due to using the wrong From address.] On Jan 30, 2006, at 6:28 AM, Randy Bush wrote: >> The new malloc implementation still it is going to be perfected, >> in my station: >> >> Xorg increase +/- 40% >> Firefox increase +/- 60% >> Amule increase +/- 30% >> >> I not recompile this ports after world. >> >> Ricardo A. Reis >> UNIFESP >> Unix and Network Admin > > let me be more clear. this is a leak, not an increase. > > if i leave the system untouched (and it's a laptop which runs no > net services), memory use by xorg (shown by top) slowly goes from > under 100m to 500m in four hours. and it keeps going until it > starts to swap. and it keeps going until it crashes the system. > > and this is new with build and portupgrade of 2006.01.23, a week > ago. On 25 January, I checked in some malloc changes that fix some severe fragmentation problems. Can you please try with a newer libc, and see if the problem persists? Thanks, Jason
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