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Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Xorg leaking memory on -current...
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20061030225118.GA10231@cons.org>, Martin Cracauer writes:
>> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote on Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 05:01:05PM +0000: 
>>> After a few days my Xorg will have gobbled up most of my RAM and I have
>>> to restart it to get my laptop out of VAX11/750 emulation mode.
>>>
>>> Has anybody else noticed this ?
>> I don't run an X11 on a 7-current system.  My 6-stable does certainly
>> not show this, the X11 server with Firefox is up for ages.
>>
>> It is also unusual that you actually see that much of a slowdown,
>> which means it is not a plain memory leak (in which case the leaked
>> pages would never be touched again, swapped out and not impact
>> performance too much).
>>
>> Can you post the memory map?
> 
> Nope.  /proc/$pid/map is "too large" so I don't get to see it :-(

There are, AFAIK, two easy ways to get around that:

1) Use the sysutils/procmap port.

2) Use dd and specify a block size that is large enough to read the 
whole map in one syscall.

Jason