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Date:      Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:10:25 -0800
From:      Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To:        Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, "Ricardo A. Reis" <ricardo_bsd@yahoo.com.br>
Subject:   Re: xorg 6.9.0 mem leak
Message-ID:  <17374.32961.768874.463443@roam.psg.com>
References:  <17373.50882.270841.554876@roam.psg.com> <43DE2130.70203@yahoo.com.br> <17374.8868.815312.597508@roam.psg.com> <DE3104E4-2EEA-47D2-AEB6-D21794B6CD05@canonware.com>

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>>> The new malloc implementation still it is going to be perfected,
>>> in my station:
>>>
>>> Xorg increase +/- 40%
>>> Firefox increase +/- 60%
>>> Amule increase +/- 30%
>>>
>>>        I not recompile this ports after world.
>>>
>>> Ricardo A. Reis
>>> UNIFESP
>>> Unix and Network Admin
>>
>> let me be more clear.  this is a leak, not an increase.
>>
>> if i leave the system untouched (and it's a laptop which runs no
>> net services), memory use by xorg (shown by top) slowly goes from
>> under 100m to 500m in four hours.  and it keeps going until it
>> starts to swap.  and it keeps going until it crashes the system.
>>
>> and this is new with build and portupgrade of 2006.01.23, a week
>> ago.
> 
> On 25 January, I checked in some malloc changes that fix some severe  
> fragmentation problems.  Can you please try with a newer libc, and  
> see if the problem persists?

sorry not to be sufficiently clear.  i am updatin every two or
three days, last was today.  problem persists.

randy




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