Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 05:29:23 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Coleman Kane <cokane@freebsd.org> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg memory leak Message-ID: <20080102182923.GM903@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <477BBB39.6070208@FreeBSD.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 11:26:33AM -0500, Coleman Kane wrote: >I'm running into some weird problem where the memory usage of Xorg will >keep increasing and increasing as time goes on. I first noticed teh >problem when I had a long-running process inside of gnome-terminal that >was constantly dumping lines of data to stdout. Eventually the memory >usage of the Xorg process would spiral out of control (Virtual Size in >excess of 6GB). Upon reaching maximum memory utilization, X clients >begin to die with BadAlloc errors and the only way to fix the problem is >to stop Xorg and then restart it. This could also be caused by a resource leak or deliberate action by a client. Firefox in particular will "cache" all images in the X server and this can make the X server bloat alarmingly (though the biggest size I've seen is 1.5GB). Have you tried exiting from long-running clients to identify if the problem is on the server or client side? -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHe9gD/opHv/APuIcRArFgAJ9dsdCqTAHf+Xr8Y3UU55TpV0z1RACdF1qY lKgSXnwMuUVIGbWZUO3LiVo= =9HE7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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