Re: (continued) XFree86 problem?

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:05:02 -0700
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:26:57AM -0500, Craig Boston wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 June 2004 05:55 am, AK wrote:
> > This really sucks
> > And no one responded so far ;-(
> >
> > top:
> >   615 root      96    0   538M   252M select   7:45  1.07%  1.07% XFree86
> 
> All I can say is it's not an isolated problem:
> 
>   769 root      96    0   442M   420M select 432:31  5.22%  5.22% XFree86
> 
> I have 96M of video memory total (dual head, a 64MB nv and a 32MB mga).  
> xrestop shows about 55M used by pixmaps.  That still leaves over 250M of 
> memory unaccounted for.
> 
> It seems to slowly grow over time, so I still suspect a memory leak somewhere.  
> I've just gotten in the habit of restarting X every week or so...  (note: 
> this is with XFree86 4.4, installed from a test version of the port someone 
> posted a while back.  Same thing happened with 4.3 as well).

Does xrestop show anything for you (it didn't for the OP, but it may
not be the same problem)?

Kris

Received on Wed Jun 16 2004 - 23:06:51 UTC

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