Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:11:33 -0600 From: Jonathan Fosburgh <jonathan@fosburgh.org> To: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible memory leak in XFree86 Message-ID: <200401161311.37284.jonathan@fosburgh.org> In-Reply-To: <1074277065.725.4.camel@leguin> References: <200401160820.19794.jonathan@fosburgh.org> <1074277065.725.4.camel@leguin>
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=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 16 January 2004 12:17 pm, Eric Anholt wrote: > > Every month or so I see someone saying they think XFree86 is leaking > memory. Of course, with this release of XFree86 having been out for > about a year now, there are probably no major memory leaks, especially > with such a commonly used driver like ATI. > > The X Server allocates memory on behalf of clients. What you are > seeing, I'm willing to bet, is some application you run is leaking > pixmaps, so the X Server continues allocating memory for it until OOM > killer starts killing things off. You could try, when the memory usage > is very large, killing your apps off one by one and seeing when the > memory usage in the server goes back down. I will admit that part of why I hadn't previously reported it (in addition = to=20 thinking that my prior hardware had something to do with it) was that I wou= ld=20 have expected seeing people screaming about this if it really was a problem= =20 in X itself (or at least running on FBSD(-CURRENT). Weighing against that,= =20 however, is the fact that I do not see this at home running the same=20 software, the same configuration (I configure KDE the same way, etc) and=20 basically the same apps. However, I will see if I can start with disabling= =20 kscreensaver entirely (that may or may not work for me, since I think the=20 screensaver has to be active to lock the display) and see if that helps ove= r=20 the long weekend. =2D --=20 Jonathan Fosburgh AIX and Storage Administrator UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFACDdoqUvQmqp7omYRAqgkAJ9Ow8JVHAqI/hLKFssp/Gl9U8agfACfYKm0 Eg5NuLkIPp3HF4cEI0RKosU=3D =3DGyb+ =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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