Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 23:44:23 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory leak somewhere? Message-ID: <199506230644.XAA02292@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jun 1995 02:30:03 EDT." <199506230630.CAA09279@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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>>> Charles Henrich said:
> 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 proc
ess
> looks like so:
>
> root 252 0.0 30.9 11632 9440 ?? I 10:39PM 0:21.43 X :0 (XF86_S
3)
>
> 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. H
e
> suggests perhaps there is a problem with something somewhere in FreeBSD. Thi
s
> 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 lik
e
> a dog because of this sort of memory usage (!) :(. On a 16mb machine, if yo
u
> 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
>
Perhaps it depends on what you do. I did xman and it bloated up my S3 X Server
over here.
Amancio
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