Re: Possible memory leak in XFree86

From: Jonathan Fosburgh <jonathan_at_fosburgh.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:11:33 -0600
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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
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