Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:53:08 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg leaking memory on -current... Message-ID: <4146.1162284788@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:50:07 %2B1100." <20061031085007.GA1466@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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In message <20061031085007.GA1466@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>, Peter Jeremy writes : > >--17pEHd4RhPHOinZp >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Disposition: inline >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >On Sun, 2006-Oct-29 17:01:05 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>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 ? > >My -current is quite out of date and I don't run normally run X on it >but my $0.02: > >Are you using jemalloc or phkmalloc? Does fiddling with MALLOC_OPTIONS >have any effect? Have you hit an edge case somewhere? jemalloc, MALLOC_OPTIONS=aj >Do you have any long-running clients? X clients can store objects in >the server and some web browsers have been known to simulate Xserver >leaks. It certainly correlates with firefox, but restarting firefox does not relieve the memory pressure. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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