Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:10:25 -0800 From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> To: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org, "Ricardo A. Reis" <ricardo_bsd@yahoo.com.br> Subject: Re: xorg 6.9.0 mem leak Message-ID: <17374.32961.768874.463443@roam.psg.com> References: <17373.50882.270841.554876@roam.psg.com> <43DE2130.70203@yahoo.com.br> <17374.8868.815312.597508@roam.psg.com> <DE3104E4-2EEA-47D2-AEB6-D21794B6CD05@canonware.com>
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>>> 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? sorry not to be sufficiently clear. i am updatin every two or three days, last was today. problem persists. randy
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