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Subject: Re: Memory leak somewhere?
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I have noticed this too, and the machine I have noticed it on is not 
running X at all. [It also has 32 megs of ram]. According to the proc 
file system I should be using somewhere around 14 megs of ram, and the 
swap space can sometimes be up to 10 and 12 megabytes. [sometimes pine is 
credited with using 7.0% of system ram! I have noticed that as a pine 
session is open it progressively takes up more memory. 

-Jerry.

> I've noticed lately that my S3 X server grows continuously (as does my swap
> utilization) as time goes by, and never shrinks.  Currently my X server process
> looks like so:
> 
> root       252  0.0 30.9 11632 9440 ??  I    10:39PM    0:21.43 X :0 (XF86_S3)
> 
> and has only been running a few hours.  I've talked with the author of the
> Server and he was astonished when I told him I've seen it as high as 15M of
> ram.  He claims he never see's this, however he's running it under Linux.  He
> suggests perhaps there is a problem with something somewhere in FreeBSD. This
> behaviour seems to be new with the 0412-SNAP, although I dont have any
> proof of this.  This is crazy, I have a 32mb machine, and its performing like
> a dog because of this sort of memory usage (!) :(.  On a 16mb machine, if you
> run any significant apps you go to swaphell because of the memory usage here.
> Could this be a leak in the kernel malloc, or mmap code or some such?
> 
> -Crh
> 
>     Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu
> 
>                      http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/
>