-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 16 January 2004 12:17 pm, Eric Anholt wrote: > > Every month or so I see someone saying they think XFree86 is leaking > memory. Of course, with this release of XFree86 having been out for > about a year now, there are probably no major memory leaks, especially > with such a commonly used driver like ATI. > > The X Server allocates memory on behalf of clients. What you are > seeing, I'm willing to bet, is some application you run is leaking > pixmaps, so the X Server continues allocating memory for it until OOM > killer starts killing things off. You could try, when the memory usage > is very large, killing your apps off one by one and seeing when the > memory usage in the server goes back down. I will admit that part of why I hadn't previously reported it (in addition to thinking that my prior hardware had something to do with it) was that I would have expected seeing people screaming about this if it really was a problem in X itself (or at least running on FBSD(-CURRENT). Weighing against that, however, is the fact that I do not see this at home running the same software, the same configuration (I configure KDE the same way, etc) and basically the same apps. However, I will see if I can start with disabling kscreensaver entirely (that may or may not work for me, since I think the screensaver has to be active to lock the display) and see if that helps over the long weekend. - -- Jonathan Fosburgh AIX and Storage Administrator UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFACDdoqUvQmqp7omYRAqgkAJ9Ow8JVHAqI/hLKFssp/Gl9U8agfACfYKm0 Eg5NuLkIPp3HF4cEI0RKosU= =Gyb+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Received on Fri Jan 16 2004 - 10:19:15 UTC
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